After the hearing on March 2 last, the V section of the Court of Cassation set a further date, May 25, in which it will decide on the appeal presented by the lawyer Luigi Alfano against the rejection of the Court of Appeal of Rome, of the 'request for review of the trial against Gianfranco Cherubini, the 61-year-old from Nuoro sentenced to life imprisonment for killing his wife, Maria Pina Sedda, on 23 July 2002 in Nuoro.
The Supreme Court will only decide on the basis of documentary evidence. Cherubini, at the end of 2020, had relied on a pool of experts who thoroughly investigated the crime, finding what were considered "new elements, never emerged before", on which he is aiming for the reopening of the trial. The new evidence was gathered by Davide Cannella, investigator known for having been a consultant to Pietro Pacciani and Mario Vanni in the trial of the so-called monster of Florence, and Eugenio D'Orio, forensic geneticist.
In particular, three traces of blood and an unpublished genetic profile whose identification could, according to the defense, exonerate Cherubini.
Maria Pina Sedda, 42 years old and with severe hearing loss, an employee of the Nuoro Registry Office, was killed on 23 July 2002 in the cellar of the family home. The experts called by Cherubini analyzed the unpublished blood traces found on the way back from the cellar, where Maria Pina was found by her husband - who gave the alarm - up the stairs and towards the escape route.
Those traces, according to Cannella, D'Orio and Alfano, could be ascribable to the real murderer. At the time they were examined, but the question asked of the expert was limited to understanding whether or not they belonged to the victim. They weren't, because the DNA had the Y chromosome which shows that they necessarily belonged to a man. But it was not asked if that blood belonged to Cherubini.
(Unioneonline / D)
