The Rome appeals court has acquitted, overturning the first-instance verdict, Daniel Belling, the German national accused of voluntary homicide and destruction of a corpse for the disappearance of his wife, Xiang Lei Li, 36, during a cruise in the Mediterranean in 2017.

In the first instance he had been sentenced to 26 years.

The second-instance judges dropped the charges against Belling with the broadest formula, that is, "because the fact does not exist". The Court did not accept, therefore, the request of the Attorney General who had urged the confirmation of the first-instance conviction.

Satisfaction, after reading the ruling, was expressed by the defense attorneys Luigi Conti and Laura Camomilla. "A sentence devoid of even the slightest logical-juridical motivation has been reformed," the comment.

(Online Union)

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