A court trying a construction worker in the murder of schoolgirl Yara Gambirasio will retire to consider its verdict on July 1, judicial sources said Friday.
Prosecutors last week requested that the accused murderer,
Massimo Bossetti, spend the rest of his life in prison, in
isolation.
Bossetti is on trial for the killing of the 13-year-old,
who went missing in November 2010 and whose body was found in an
isolated field the following February.
The construction worker and father of three was arrested in
2014 after extensive DNA testing of the local population tracked
him down as the biological son of a local bus driver, Giuseppe
Guerinoni, who died in 1999.
This in turn identified Bossetti as the donor of DNA found
on the teen's body.
Forensic experts also found traces of the fabric from seats
in Bossetti's van on the leggings worn by Yara the day she
disappeared.
Prosecutors argued the murder was aggravated by torture and
cruelty because the victim was struck three times in the head
and stabbed multiple times before being dumped in the field,
where she died from a combination of the injuries and exposure.
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