Binda gets 300,000 euros for unjust detention in Macchi case

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 12 - A 54-year-old Italian man, Stefano Binda, got 303,000 euros in compensation for unjust detention Wednesday after being acquitted last year of the murder of 21-year-old student Lidia Macchi in a wood near Varese in January 1987.
    A Milan appeals court handed down the ruling.
    Binda spent three and a half years in jail during the various trials over the case, between 2016 and 2019.
    He was definitively cleared in January 2021.
    Binda, a former high-school mate of Macchi's who now works a translator, had asked for compensation of over 350,000 euros.
    He had always declared his innocence.
    The murder thus remains unsolved after 35 years. (ANSA).