Jan. 26, 2024

A Supreme Court in Rome, Italy, has upheld a life sentence earlier handed out by a lower court to Innocent Oseghale, a 39-year-old Nigerian, for murdering a female teenager.

According to agenzianova.com, an Italian news agency, Oseghale’s sentencing was upheld by the apex court on Tuesday.

FIJ had reported how the Nigerian was arrested and subsequently convicted for sexual assault, murder and the destruction of the body of Pamela Mastropietro, who was then an 18-year-old recovering drug addict.

Oseghale was said to have committed the act on January 29, 2018.

After arriving in Italy in 2014 as an asylum seeker, the Nigerian later dropped out of a refugee assistance programme and resorted to selling drugs.

Mastropietro was murdered after she fled a drug addiction recovery centre in Macerata, central Italy, and made a long-distance journey on foot in an attempt to buy drugs.

During her search for drugs, she met Oseghale, who offered to sell heroin to her.

A day after Mastropietro’s meeting with the Nigerian, two suitcases containing her mutilated and dismembered body parts were found in a ditch.

The police also later found Mastropietro’s bloodied clothing at Oseghale’s home.

An investigation into the Italian’s death later revealed that she died due to successive abdominal stabbings. It was also said that her body was dismembered while she was still alive.

Before Tuesday’s sentencing, Alessandra Verni, the deceased’s mother, had been wearing a shirt that carried her daughter’s picture for six years, demanding justice.

Courtesy: ANSA