Overview

• The Milan appeals court will hear Impagnatiello’s appeal on June 25, 2025, contesting his life sentence for the 2023 murders of Giulia Tramontano and her unborn child.
• His defense argues that he lacked any planning or intent to inflict suffering and acted impulsively to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, seeking to strip premeditation and cruelty from his conviction.
• Impagnatiello stabbed Tramontano 37 times, tried to cremate her body with alcohol and gasoline and moved the remains among multiple locations before hiding them in a Milan condominium interstice.
• Prosecution will be led by substitute general prosecutor Maria Pia Gualtieri, who will defend the life sentence and the aggravating factors of premeditation and cruelty.
• If the appeals court excludes those aggravations and grants generic mitigating circumstances, his sentence could drop from life imprisonment to around 30 years.