Overview

• Judges in Tempio Pausania found Ciro Grillo, Edoardo Capitta and Vittorio Lauria guilty and sentenced each to 8 years, while Francesco Corsiglia received 6 years and 6 months.
• Neither the four defendants nor the principal accuser attended the verdict, after the accuser’s lawyer Giulia Bongiorno advised her to stay away.
• The prosecutor had asked for 9 years for all four; the court recognized generic mitigating factors and set provisional awards of €10,000 for three defendants and €5,000 for Corsiglia to the civil parties.
• Investigative material included videos and photos from the defendants’ phones, and the court’s assessment centered on the woman’s lack of valid consent due to alcohol; Corsiglia was acquitted on the count involving images taken near the face of the sleeping friend.
• The decision is a first‑instance judgment, so prison terms are not immediate as the written motivations will be filed and the defense teams plan to appeal.