(ANSA) - Milan, November 24 - Milan prosecutors on Monday requested a 30-year prison sentence for Alberto Stasi, who is in the second, or appeals, stage of his trial in connection with the 2007 murder of his fiancée Chiara Poggi.
The defendant "systematically" obstructed investigators with omissions that went beyond the right to self-defense, prosecutors said.
Stasi claimed he found Poggi's lifeless body at her family home on August 13, 2007, the day after the couple had had dinner there together.
Stasi claimed that after dinner, he left his fiancée at her parents' home and went to sleep at his own house.
He returned the next day because Poggi wasn't answering her phone, only to find the front door open and her lifeless body lying in a pool of blood.
Also on Monday, prosecutors cited crime scene evidence they say contradicts the defendant's testimony about the circumstances in which he found the victim's body.
Had he indeed walked up the villa's steps as he said, his shoes would have been covered in blood, prosecutors at the fast-track trial said.
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