(ANSA) - TARANTO, MARCH 22 - Michele Misseri, the 68-year-old farmer from Avetrana definitively sentenced to 8 years in prison for the suppression of the corpse of his niece Sarah Scazzi, the 15-year-old from Avetrana killed and thrown into a well on August 26, 2010, obtained a 41-day sentence reduction under the "empty prison" decree.
Misseri is being held in the Lecce prison.
His daughter Sabrina Misseri and his wife Cosima Serrano (Sarah's cousin and aunt) are serving a life sentence for the murder of the girl.
The appeal based on the decree emptying prisons, presented by the lawyer Luca La Tanza, was accepted on 22 February by the supervisory magistrate of Lecce Stefano Sernia.
There are two reasons behind the provision: Michele Misseri lives in a cell in which there are not even 3 square meters available to each inmate and in which there is neither a shower nor hot water.
The decision is therefore based on the precarious livability conditions in the penitentiary facility of the Salento capital, in the period from 9 March 2017 until the end of 2022. The man will finish serving his sentence in the spring of 2024. (ANSA).