(ANSA) - Bergamo, March 11 - Massimo Bossetti, a
construction worker on trial for the 2010 murder of 13-year-old
schoolgirl Yara Gambirasio, in courtroom testimony on Friday
denied that the DNA found on Gambirasio's body was his, and said
he never conducted any online searches for young girls or
thirteen-year-olds.
"It's cockeyed DNA, half of it doesn't correspond,"
Bossetti said on the witness stand.
He was referring to his defence team's claim that traces of
Bossetti's nuclear DNA found on the victim's body did not match
with mitochondrial DNA on her, which does not belong to the
defendant.
"I've been asking myself since the day of my arrest how I
ended up in this event, given that I didn't do anything and you
all know it," he said.
Bossetti refuted evidence presented at trial based on an
examination of his home computer that he conducted Internet
searches for young girls and thirteen-year-olds.
"No, absolutely, I'm being honest, there are no searches
like that on our computers, absolutely," Bossetti said.
Bossetti also said he thought the murder "was staged to get
me into trouble".
Bossetti testifies 'not my DNA' on Gambirasio's body
Denies web searches for 13-year-olds found on his computer