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Benno Neumair Now Teaching Chess in Prison as Restorative-Justice Visits by Two Aunts Continue

His life sentence remains in force after all appeals, with judges ruling that diagnosed personality disorders do not lessen criminal responsibility.

Overview

  • After completing a year of daytime isolation at Montorio at the end of September, he rejoined activities inside the Verona facility.
  • The prison director assigned him to instruct fellow inmates in chess, and both staff and his lawyers describe his conduct as collaborative.
  • Two aunts meet him regularly under a restorative-justice program that began in September 2023, a voluntary process separate from his sentence.
  • Sister Madé and aunt Carla decline any contact, saying he has neither acknowledged responsibility nor shown remorse, according to their attorneys.
  • He is serving life for the 4 January 2021 strangulations of parents Peter Neumair and Laura Perselli and the disposal of their bodies in the Adige, a verdict upheld at every judicial level.