Kaufmann sentenced to life imprisonment for the double murder of Villa Pamphili

Life imprisonment with daytime isolation for three years for Francis Kaufmann. This is the sentence of the Court of Assizes of Rome for the perpetrator of the double murder of his partner Anastasia Trofimova and his daughter Andromeda, found lifeless on 7 June last year at Villa Pamphili in Rome. The prosecutors had charged the American citizen, who had fled to Greece after the events, with the double murder aggravated by the frivolous and base motives, the impaired defence, the emotional relationship with his partner and the lineage in relation to his daughter as well as the concealment of the body.

The requests of the Prosecutor's Office were accepted

"Kaufmann is cold, lucid, manipulative, a pathological narcissist, but he is not incapable of understanding and wanting. He has a strong and distinct personality but he is an impostor", the prosecutor underlined in the indictment at the last hearing. An "impostor" who also managed to "wrap" the officers who had stopped him while he was drunk in the street with his daughter and who "if they had done their job well perhaps the little girl would still be alive", the prosecutor said.

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Double murder Villa Pamphili, life sentence requested for Kaufmann

Kaufmann capable of understanding and wanting

Kaufmann's trial was suspended last May after the Court had ordered a pharmacological course for the accused and was resumed after just over a month when the psychophysical state of the accused was deemed by the judges compatible with prison. Last October the judges rejected the defence's latest request for a new expert report to assess the defendant's capacity for understanding and will.