Senegalese national Cheik
Diaw, 27, on Wednesday had his 30-year prison term upheld for
the murder of American artist Ashley Olsen in Florence on
January 9 2016.
The prosecutor in the Florence appeals case had requested
life imprisonment.
Diaw was arrested January 14 2016 after he was identified
with help from surveillance camera footage as leaving a club
with the victim and subsequently accompanying her to her home.
Olsen, 35, was found by her Italian artist boyfriend Federico
Fiorentini in her flat with trauma to the head and signs of
ligature strangulation on January 9.
She had been out of touch with Fiorentini for a few days
following an argument, and had spent the night with Diaw.
According to initial reports, the Senegalese man admitted
under interrogation to being responsible for her death but said
it was not intentional.
Olsen, originally from Florida, was living in Florence where
her father, an architect, works at an art school.
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