A 36-year-old Italian man will be
spared from spending the rest of a 30-year term he got in 2019
for murdering his girlfriend in prison because he is morbidly
obese and the jail diet would put his life at risk, a Turin
surveillance court ruled earlier this week, La Repubblica daily
reported Friday.
Dimitri Fricano, from Biella, killed 28-year-old Erika Preti on
a Sardinian holiday in June 2017, stabbing her 57 times because
she had scolded him for leaving too many crumbs on the hotel
bed.
The court ruled that Fricano must leave a Turin jail because he
is "incompatible with the prison regime" after his weight
ballooned from 120 kg at the time of his arrest to over 200,
making it very hard for him to get around.
His incarceration also makes it impossible for him to follow a
slimming diet, the judges said.
Fricano will serve the rest of his time under house arrest in a
town near Biella.
photo: Fricano (left foreground) before his prison weight gain
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