A thirty-one year old of South American origins, his initials JINR, was sentenced to 5 years in prison for sexual assault, a sentence 6 months less than that requested by prosecutor Giovanni Castellani.
The details
The judge also applied a perpetual ban on the accused from holding public office. The trial, held in Novara, ended on Thursday 2 May for events that occurred on 22 April 2017 inside an apartment in Viale Giulio Cesare. That Saturday seven years ago, according to the reconstruction, it was an escort who requested police intervention.
Once they arrived on site, the officers found the woman in a state of strong agitation, the house was all in disarray and there was an anomalous smell of bleach. The victim said she had been attacked by a man who, after having made an appointment through a specialized site for a sexual service, had gone into a rage because she had wanted to consummate that relationship without paying.
Faced with the blunt refusal – this was not what was agreed between the two – the South American first grabbed the firefly by the neck, then attempted to grope and kiss it. Not satisfied, he had also thrown bleach at her. The attacker, it must be said, was arrested about 90 days after the event, when the police, who intervened following a dispute in Via Roma, recognized him.
His telephone number, moreover, corresponded to the one that appeared on the WhatsApp messages used to arrange the meeting. After the filing of the reasons, it is possible for the defense lawyer Luca Berra to appeal the sentence, who in the courtroom had asked for his client’s acquittal.
