Court officials are racing
against time in a case against two alleged would-be rapists in
the August 2011 death of 20-year-old Genoese student Martina
Rossi who fell from a sixth-floor hotel balcony on Majorca.
On Thursday the charge of murder as a consequences of another
crime was timed out.
An appeals court said the statute of limitations applied to
the case of Arezzo men Luca Vanneschi and Alessandro Albertoni.
Now prosecutors are racing to convict the pair of the alleged
attempted rape, and court officials have brought the next
hearing forward to February 10 next year.
The rape charges will time out in 2021.
The two were sentenced to six years in jail at a
first-instance trial on December 14 last.
The trial was initially scheduled to resume on September 20,
2020.
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