Man gets life for killing girlfriend

(ANSA) - Florence, October 20 - A man was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for murdering his girlfriend and concealing her body.
    Davide Di Martino, 51, was found guilty of kicking, punching, and stabbing 43-year-old Irene Focardi to death during a jealous argument, putting her body in a bag and dumping it not far from her home in a drainage ditch in the outlying Florence neighborhood of Le Piaggie. Former model Focardi went missing from her home February 3, 2015, and her remains were found March 29.
    When the sentence was read Di Martino turned to the court and shouted: "You've made a mistake".
    The sentence also calls for him to spend eight months in daytime isolation and awards provisional damages of 130,000 euros to the victim's family.