Bossetti gets life for Yara murder (3)

(ANSA) - Milan, May 27 - A Milan court on Friday found construction worker Massimo Bossetti guilty of the murder of schoolgirl Yara Gambirasio in 2010.
    Judges sentenced Bossetti to spend the rest of his life in prison.
    The court found that Bossetti murdered the 13-year-old Yara, who went missing in November 2010 and whose body was found in an isolated field the following February.
    Before sentencing, Bossetti told the court in his final appeal that he might be uneducated but that does not make him a killer. "I might be stupid, a cretin, extremely ignorant, but I'm not a murderer," the construction worker told the court. "What I'm accused of is shameful". The father of three was arrested in 2014 after extensive DNA testing of the local population tracked him down as the biological son of a local bus driver, Giuseppe Guerinoni, who died in 1999.
    This in turn identified Bossetti as the donor of DNA found on the teen's body.
    Forensic experts also found traces of the fabric from seats in Bossetti's van on the leggings worn by Yara the day she disappeared.
    Prosecutors argued the murder was aggravated by torture and cruelty because the victim was struck three times in the head and stabbed multiple times before being dumped in the field, where she died from a combination of the injuries and exposure.