Impagnatiello returns to the courtroom, the encore appeal on premeditation begins

The hearing of the second appeal trial against Alessandro Impagnatiello, the 33-year-old former barman sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Giulia Tramontano, seven months pregnant, killed with 37 stab wounds on 27 May 2023 in their home in Senago, in the Milan area, has begun before the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Milan. The victim's mother, brother and sister as well as the accused are present in the courtroom. The substituting character is Maria Pia Gualtieri.

The new procedural phase was ordered by the Supreme Court to re-evaluate the aggravating circumstance of premeditation, excluded by the Milan Court of Appeal in June 2025, when the life sentence was confirmed.

In the reasons for the decision, the Supreme Court asked to delve into the elements relating to the administration of rat poison to the victim, which began in December 2022 and intensified in the last month and a half before the crime, in addition to the defendant's online searches for lethal substances.