Italian police on Wednesday staged a
series of searches in relation to an investigation into a new
suspect for the the 2007 murder of 26-year-old Chiara Poggi in
Garlasco, near Pavia - a crime for which the victim's
ex-boyfriend, Alberto Stasi, is serving a definitive 16-year
jail term.
Police searched the home of the new suspect, Andrea Sempio, a
friend of Poggi's brother, in Voghera, near Pavia, and the homes
of his parents and of two of his friends, seizing computers and
telephones, the sources said.
They also staged searches in the nearby town of Tromello in a
bid to find the murder weapon, which may have been thrown into a
canal, the sources said.
The new probe was launched after new forensic tests carried out
at the initiative of Stasi's legal team found that the DNA
isolated under the victim's nails, which had originally been
deemed as unserviceable by magistrates in Pavia who had
investigated Sempio in 2016, could allegedly match with his DNA.
Former Bocconi business school student Stasi has always said he
is innocent.
He was twice acquitted of the murder before the supreme
Cassation Court in 2013 overturned those rulings and ordered a
repeat of the appeals-level trial.
In December 2014, Milan's appeals court convicted Stasi in a
sentence that was upheld by the Cassation a year later.
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