Woman who killed son and dismembered mother gets 27 years

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 18 - An Italian woman who killed her three-year-old son and murdered and dismembered her mother in Genoa in November 2019 on Thursday got a definitive 27 year jail term from the high Court of Cassation.
    Giulia Stanganini, after murdering her son with a knife, went on to kill Loredana Stuppazzoni whose body she then dismembered and hid.
    The Court of Cassation upheld the appeal sentence.
    The judges declared the woman semi mentally infirm.
    At first instance she had been sentenced to life imprisonment and had been recognised as capable of understanding, on the other hand.
    More recently, an expert psychiatric assessment concluded that she was capable of understanding at the time of the murders and partially insane when she cut her mother into pieces. (ANSA).