20-yr term for acid attack upheld

(ANSA) - Rome, May 11 - Italy's supreme Court of Cassation upheld a 20-year prison term for Luca Varani, a man who hired two men to attack his ex-girlfriend with acid late on Tuesday, making the sentence definitive.
    The woman, Lucia Annibali, was severely disfigured and needed a series of plastic-surgery operations, including on her face, in a case that appalled Italy and was seen as part of a wider problem of violence against women.
    The two Albanian men who actually carried out the attack in April 2013 will serve 12-year terms. "Now I'd like to resettle back into society like a normal woman," said Annibali, a lawyer, after the ruling.