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.
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