A Rome court on Monday accepted a
request for Gabriele Natale Hjorth, one of two young Americans
convicted of the homicide of Carabinieri police officer Mario
Cerciello Rega in the Italian capital in July 2019, to be
released from jail to house arrest.
The decision comes after Natale Hjorth's sentence was reduced on
appeal from 22 years to 11 years and four months earlier in
July.
The court ruled that he should stay under house arrest at his
grandmothers home in Fregene, a town on the coast near Rome.
The other young American convicted of the killing, Finnegan Lee
Elder, was cut to 15 years and two months in prison from 24
years.
Elder was found guilty of killing Cerciello Rega with 11 stab
wounds inflicted by a combat knife he had brought over from the
US while Natale Hjorth assaulted the slain officer's partner at
the end of a chain of events sparked by a drugs deal that went
wrong.
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