The Fifth Court of Appeal of Milan upheld the application for reparation for unjust detention and paid over 303,000 euros to Stefano Binda, the 53-year-old who was definitively acquitted in January 2021 of the accusation of killing the student Lidia Macchi.
The man was in prison for 3 and a half years, between 2016 and 2019, and last May, in the courtroom, he asked for "compensation" of over 350 thousand euros.
In January of last year Stefano Binda had been definitively acquitted of the accusation of killing Lidia Macchi, the young student killed with 29 stab wounds in January 1987 and found dead in a wood in Cittiglio in the Varese area, a case that has remained unsolved ever since.
In the first instance, Binda was sentenced to life imprisonment, and then acquitted on appeal by the Milan Court of Assizes.
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investigation, called by the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office, on 15 January 2016 had brought Binda to the cell.
The man was released from prison on 24 July 2019, following acquittal in the second degree then confirmed by the Supreme Court.
Today the Fifth Court of Appeal, as was communicated with a note, filed the order recognizing the unjust detention and immediately liquidating € 303,277.38 as compensation.