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.
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