Convictions of four pushers for teen's homicide upheld

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 21 - A Rome appeals court on Monday upheld two life sentences and two long jail terms for four drugs pushers over the homicide of Desirée Mariottini, a 16-year-old Italian girl who was sexually abused and left to die after an overdose in Rome in October 2018.
    Senegalese pair Mamadou Gara and Yussef Salia got life in jail while Ghanaian Alinno China got 27 years and Nigerian Brian Minthe 24 years.
    Mariottini, from Cisterna di Latina south of Rome, died in a run.-down abandoned building in Rome's working class San Lorenzo district, which has a big drugs trade. (ANSA).