Marco Venturi was sentenced to 6 years in prison for the death of his former partner Carlotta Benusiglio, the 37-year-old designer found hanged on May 31, 2016 from a tree in the gardens in Piazza Napoli in Milan. In the trial with shortened rite the sentence came for “death as a result of another crime, injury and stalking”. Venturi, 45, was instead acquitted of the charge of voluntary murder, for which he had been asked for a sentence of 30 years.
For the victim’s family it is a victory. Giorgia Benusiglio, sister of the designer: «We are happy because the responsibility for the death of my sister has been attributed to Marco Venturi. He was not sentenced to many years but we wanted to restore dignity to my sister and today this thing has been done, I believed in justice and it has arrived ».
The sentence does not hold him directly responsible for the death, but his actions would have been, for the judge, part of the causes that led to the designer’s death. The gup Raffaella Mascarino he retrained the charges for Venturi, who was on trial for murder, mistreatment and injury to his former partner.
Andrea Belotti defends Venturi together with Veronica Rasoli. “The hypothesis that he strangled and staged the suicide of Benusiglio has completely fallen away, as far as I can understand from the device of the judge whose factual and legal logic escapes me” according to what the Corriere della Sera. The lawyer said Venturi is disappointed because a conviction has come, against which they are ready to appeal. “I trust that he will be acquitted on appeal of all the rest, starting with a juridical requalification for which I am waiting to read carefully the reasons of the judge”.
The reasons of the sentence will arrive within ninety days. The judge provided for compensation of 200 thousand euros to the mother and 100 thousand euros to the victim’s sister.
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Source: Vanity Fair
