Overview
- The Genoa Corte d’assise convicted Cecere and set a 24-year term for the 1996 killing, while commercial accountant Marco Soracco received two years for favouring.
- Prosecutor Gabriella Dotto had sought life for Cecere and four years for Soracco; judges kept the aggravating factor of trivial motives but excluded cruelty, resulting in a lower sentence.
- Defence lawyers announced they will challenge the verdict on appeal, and the written motivations from the court are still to come.
- The cold case was reopened in 2021 after criminologist Antonella Delfino Pesce and the family’s lawyer re-read the dossier, prompting new investigative work.
- Investigators cited converging indications—two genetic profiles on the victim’s clothes, a fingerprint, witness sightings, and a button comparison—against a backdrop of early scene contamination; Soracco’s mother, Marisa Bacchioni, was excluded from trial on medical grounds.