A Ghanaian migrant who attacked
and killed three passers-by with a pickaxe in Milan on May 11,
2013, had a 20-year prison term upheld by a Milan appeals court
Tuesday.
Mada 'Adam' Kabobo was first convicted on April 15, 2014
after a fast-track trial in which he was deemed to be mentally
semi-infirm.
The appeals court confirmed this assessment.
Kabobo was judged fit to stand trial in October 2013
despite suffering from "schizophrenic psychosis" after
he killed pensioner Ermanno Masini, 64, unemployed 40-year-old
Alessandro Carole' and 21-year-old Daniele Carella in the early
morning rampage.
Kabobo's ability to control his actions was "greatly
diminished but not totally absent" and he was sufficiently "able
to understand" what he was doing to face murder charges,
psychiatrists said at the time.
Two other people were injured in Kabobo's hour-long string
of attacks before he was stopped by police.
Kabobo's defence lawyers, who had requested his acquittal
on grounds of total infirmity, said they would appeal against
the sentence.
They have already lodged a petition with the supreme Court
of Cassation for the Ghanaian to be transferred to a judicial
psychiatric hospital in order to receive more appropriate care.
Andrea Masini, son of the victim Ermanno Masini, had
described his initial sentence as "insufficient".
Relatives of the victims are suing the interior ministry
for compensation on grounds Kabobo, who came to Italy illegally
in 2011 and was later served an expulsion order, does not
officially own anything.
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