Top court paves way for Cospito term to be cut

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 18 - Italy's Constitutional Court on Tuesday paved the way for the 30-year term of jailed anarchist leader Alfredo Cospito to be cut.
    Cospito, 55, has been on hunger strike for five months against his tough 41 bis jail regime, normally reserved for Mafia bosses.
    He has lost over 40 kg and increasing concerns over his health have helped spur anarchists protests and violent action including arson attacks in his support inside and outside Italy.
    The Constitutional Court on Tuesday cleared the way for a discount in Cospito's sentence, dropping the rule that would have bound the Turin Court of Appeal to necessarily sentence him to life imprisonment for the attack on the Carabinieri Cadet School in Fossano, for which he got 20 years.
    He is serving an additional 10 years for kneecapping a nuclear company executive. (ANSA).