Sensational reduction of sentence, though small, decided by the Milan Court of Appeal, by a 63-year-old man convicted of kidnapping, beating and raping his ex-partner: according to the judges, who reduced the sentence from 5 years to 4 years and 4 months in “a degraded family context ” the intensity of the willful misconduct is mitigated by the fact that the man “He was exasperated by the too casual behavior of the woman.”

THE FACTS AND PENALTY REDUCTION – It all dates back to the night of June 8, 2019: in Vimercate, in the province of Monza, the 63-year-old man kidnaps the woman in his trailer and there he beats and rapes her until the arrival of the police in the morning next, alerted by his daughter. The victim was threatened, even with death: the partner accused her of treason with other men she met in Facebook. For these crimes, the Monza Court in an abbreviated procedure had established a sentence of 5 years for the man, a sentence that the Milan Court of Appeal has now reduced to 4 years and 4 months. Should “take into account the family and social context” and even “It is worth remembering” that that context “it was characterized by anomalies such as the woman’s relations with other men, almost favored by the accused or in any case not hindered”