The second appeal for the murder of Angelo Maria Piras, a farmer from Lula who was shot dead on January 25, 2015, ended with a 21-year prison sentence.

The Court of Appeal of Cagliari, presided over by Massimo Poddighe with Claudia Belelli as associate judge, found Alice Flore guilty of moral and material complicity in the murder of her former brother-in-law, rejecting the request for acquittal advanced by the Attorney General Luigi Patronaggio.

The sentence comes at the end of the second appeal trial, ordered by the Court of Cassation which had annulled with referral the previous sentence of 24 years inflicted on Flore and her ex-husband Nico Piras. In the first instance, in Nuoro, both – Nico, the victim's brother, and Alice Flore – had been acquitted. On appeal they had been convicted, but the Supreme Court had requested a new evaluation of the wiretaps and the evidence.

During his speech, Attorney General Patronaggio had underlined the insufficiency of the evidence and the poor intelligibility of the wiretaps, asking for Flore's acquittal and for no proceedings to be taken against Nico Piras due to the death of the accused, even though he acknowledged his responsibility, as he was killed in 2023 by his nephew Antonello, son of Angelo Maria, in a tragic family epilogue.

Different was the position of the civil parties, represented by the lawyers Angelo Colli and Francesco Mossa and Pasqualino Moi, who had urged the recognition of Flore's criminal responsibility, convinced of his active role in the crime. The Court largely accepted their arguments, rejecting the requests of the Attorney General and the defense line supported by the lawyers Francesco Lai and Potito Flagella.

With this sentence, at least on a judicial level, a ten-year trial marked by family feuds, cross-murders and a long legal battle comes to an end .

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