Nurse sentenced to 25 years is freed, she didn't kill her neighbor

Definitively sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing her neighbor, nurse Monica Bussetto is freed after more than 10 years spent in prison: the Court of Appeal of Trento has in fact accepted the second request for review of the trial.

Bussetto was arrested and convicted for the murder of Lida Taffi Pamio, found lifeless at home in Mestre in December 2012. Three years after that conviction, however, a second woman, Francesca Vianello, was killed in similar ways. And the perpetrator of that crime, Susanna Milly Lazzarini, confessed to having also killed Taffi Pamio.

"Yes, the review was accepted on the basis of the new evidence acquired by Massimiliano Andreetta of 'Iene' which demonstrates that the chain seized from Monica has a size and shape completely different from that which the victim had until a few moments before dying. This also made it unnecessary to discuss the second cause of review which was linked to reasons of violation of the chain of custody of the artefact which, today we can say, was contaminated. We always have trust, we have had trust, obviously we must tell Monica 'sorry for the delay'", Stefano Busetto, the lawyer of Monica Bussetto, in prison since 2012 for the Fatti Pamio crime, told ANSA.