Safayou Sow, the 27-year-old Guinean citizen who killed his ex-partner Danjela Neza in Savona with two gunshots on the night between 5 and 6 May 2023, was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Today, in the great hall of the Savona court, the sentence of the Court of Assizes presided over by judge Fiorenza Giorgi.
Sow was also sentenced to pay 318 thousand euros in compensation to the victim's mother and 100 thousand euros to his brother, and to solitary confinement for a year.
The sentence is more than the 30 years requested by the public prosecutor Luca Traversa.
The prosecutor had invoked three aggravating circumstances, the emotional relationship, premeditation and futile motives, but had asked for a life sentence, recalling that Sow spontaneously handed himself over to the police by calling 112 and that he later collaborated with the investigators by providing them with the password of the victim's cell phone (which contained the audio recording of the last moments of the woman's life).
The person who had asked for a life sentence was instead Lucrezia Novaro, lawyer for the civil parties: "This sentence is an important response for the family from the State" was her immediate comment.
Sow, who arrived in Italy on a boat, had found work as a dishwasher in the restaurant where Neza worked.
The two had started a relationship which the woman later ended.
At that point the man had repeatedly asked the girl to leave her job so as not to see her anymore, going so far as to blackmail her with images of her.
Before the murder, Sow had done research on the web on how to use a gun and had obtained a .22 caliber semi-automatic with the serial number removed.
Then he had arranged to meet the woman in the gardens next to the station: once there, he had taken the weapon from the car and fired, hitting her twice in the head.
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