(ANSA) - ROME, NOVEMBER 19 - Benno Neumair, the 31-year-old from Bolzano who on January 4, 2021 killed his parents, 63-year-old Peter Neumair and 68-year-old Laura Perselli, both retired teachers, to later throw their bodies into the Adige, was sentenced to life sentence.
The court fully accepted the prosecution's requests, sentencing Benno to life imprisonment both for the murder of his father, Peter Neumair, and for that of his mother, Laura Perselli.
Benno Neumair was sentenced to 3 years' imprisonment for the crime of suppressing a corpse, i.e. for having thrown the bodies of killed parents into the waters of the Adige.
The final penalty is therefore life imprisonment with a year of daytime isolation and perpetual disqualification from public office.
"This is not a victory. It is not an achievement. It is the end of a chapter that has been very painful," said Benno's sister, Made Neumair, who was in the courtroom to read out her brother's life sentence for the parental murder.
"It's not that this pain or the reasons we'll read will give us our mom and dad back. But maybe it will give us some peace as much as we can have peace after this upheaval", he added with his voice breaking with emotion, "I don't know if I will forgive him" (ANSA).
