(see related story) (ANSA) - Genoa, December 19 - The judge who authorised a prison-leave permit for a serial killer who subsequently took flight said Thursday that her decision was legitimate. Bartolomeo Gagliano, a 55-year-old convicted of three murders and an attempted murder in the 1980s, went missing while on leave for good behaviour Tuesday. "The permit was issued on legitimate foundations, after a long study of reports that said for some time there had been a balancing of the psychiatric disorder, lucidity, capacity to cooperate, tranquility and no signs of being psychopathic," said judge Daniela Verrina.
Judge says serial killer's leave permit legitimate
Gagliano was 'lucid, able to cooperate'
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