The sentences for the murder of Francesco Rosso, the 35-year-old butcher killed on 14 April 2015 in Simeri Mare, a hamlet of Simeri Crichi, become final. The Court of Cassation in fact rejected the appeals presented by Francesco Mauro, Gregorio Procopio and Vincenzo Sculco. For them, the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Catanzaro in February 2025 reduced the sentences decided at first instance. In particular, Gregorio Procopio and Francesco Mauro had been sentenced to 30 years as requested by the general prosecutor’s office (in the first instance both had received life sentences); Vincenzo Sculco was sentenced to 15 years and 4 months in prison (the Prosecutor’s Office had requested a sentence of 16 years in prison, in the first instance he was sentenced to 24 years). Penalties have now become definitive. Still in the second degree trial, however, the judges had deemed the instigator of the crime, Evangelista Russo, incapable of standing at trial, ordering the six-monthly risk assessment.
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