Priest gets 21 yrs for murdering ex priest

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 31 - A 60-year-old Italian priest got 21 and a half years in jail Thursday from Italy's supreme court for strangling to death a 92-year-old former priest at a religious lodging in Trieste in April 2014 after a row over an allegedly stolen gold chain, legal sources said Friday.
    The convicted murderer, Don Paolo Piccoli, was arrested in his room at Roma's Gemelli Hospital, the one habitually used by popes. where he is being treated for an unspecified medical condition.
    Piccoli, who was born in Veneto and is on leave from the curia in L'Aquila, was found guilty of suffocating and strangling to death monsignor Giuseppe Rocco.
    Piccoli is under police guard at the Policlinico Gemelli.
    (ANSA).