The cell is too small, the femicide's sentence will be discounted

Sentenced to 30 years in prison for femicide, a man obtained a 42-day sentence reduction because during his period of pre-trial detention he had been imprisoned in a cell that was too small. It happens to Luigi Sibilio, a 44-year-old man from Santa Maria di Sala (Venice), definitively convicted of the murder of his ex-partner, Natasha Bettiolo, from Massanzago (Padua).

Sibilio is serving his sentence in the Montorio prison in Verona, but through his lawyer he had appealed to the Surveillance Court of Venice, complaining of having been locked up in a space smaller than three square metres, an inconvenience made even greater by his body size: in fact he weighs 140 kilograms. He was thus granted the right to one day's discount for every 10 days spent in pre-trial detention. he will be able to subtract them from the 30 year sentence that was inflicted on him with an abbreviated procedure, confirmed both on appeal and by the Court of Cassation. Sibilio, a former butcher, was convicted of voluntary homicide aggravated by premeditation and the victim's impaired defense condition, also for carrying a bladed weapon in a public place, and finally for aggravated threats.

He was also given three years of probation at the end of his sentence. The crime occurred on May 18, 2017, outside the primary school of Trebaseleghe (Padua), where the victim worked as a cook. Sibilio approached the woman, with whom he had had a brief relationship, getting into his car, where he pulled out a kitchen knife and struck her several times in the abdomen and neck. Immediately afterwards the man tried to kill himself by inflicting two blows on the chest and one on the belly, but without succeeding in this case too due to his size, which prevented injuries to the vital organs. As in other cases, the woman had previously been threatened by the man, but had not asked for help or filed a complaint with the police.