Saronno, homicides in the ward: the sentence to nurse Laura Taroni annulled by the Supreme Court

Canceled by Court of Cassation the sentence of conviction for Laura Taroni, an ER nurse from Saronno, in the Varese area. The woman had been sentenced to 30 years for being held responsible for the murder of her husband, Massimo Guerra, and her mother, María Rita Clerici, aided according to the accusation of her mistress doctor. Leonardo Cazzaniga, anesthetist at the facility where the accused worked. Now we will return to the appeal, but the sentence will be issued by another section of Assize. For the defendant’s attorney, Cataldo Intrieri, “The decision does not refer only to the fact that the sentence was incomplete because the Milan Court of Appeal had forgotten part of the motivation, but also because there is no evidence of responsibility for the murders.” Then he added: “The case is reopened.”

Nurse Taroni was one of the two protagonists of the investigation “Angels and Demons“Carried out by prosecutor of Busto Arsizio, about the deaths that occurred inside the facility where he worked with Cazzaniga. Both arrested in 2015, was subjected to two separate trials, of which Cazzaniga himself was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Busto Arsizio Criminal Court, when he was found guilty of ten of the twelve murders of patients in the ward for which he had been tried. Among the deaths, the doctor was also charged with those of Massimo and Luciano Guerra, Taroni’s husband and father-in-law, respectively.

For the defenders of the former Lomazzo nurse (Cataldo Intrieri and connects it Monica alberti) was a victory, thanks to which they obtained the nullity of the sentence of July 2, 2019. After depositing the 122 pages that made up the motivation of the sentence, however, there were no longer 13, those related to the ability to understand and at the request of the accused. A material errorTherefore, what the judges themselves had warned, who had set a hearing to correct the defect of form. Alberti and Intrieri had deposited a request for invalidity of the hearing for having violated Taroni’s right to defense, given that a week earlier the deadlines for submitting the appeal to the Supreme Court would have expired. Decision against which the Attorney General had moved, who instead asked the tenants of the Palazzaccio to reject the appeal, since the missing parts of the sentence would not have had a decisive weight for the purposes of the sentence.

Thus, the decision of the Supreme Court that annulled the sentence, which, according to the defenders, was also motivated by the fact that there were no ermines. the evidence of the guilt of the accused. However, pending the new appeal, Taroni will continue in jail, unless the terms of pretrial detention expire in the meantime. The verdict It was announced last night, Friday, September 11. “We are very satisfied. In addition to the issue of the missing pages, the ruling of the appeal contained many gaps ”, was the comment of the defender Intrieri.