Milan, 15 May (LaPresse) – The Milan Court of Appeal has sentenced Davide Fontana to life imprisonment in the retrial for the murder of Carol Maltesi. In September 2024, the Court of Cassation had partially overturned the first sentence of 21 February 2024, ordering a new trial only on the aggravating circumstance of premeditation against the 45-year-old bank employee and food blogger from Milan, who on 11 January 2022 killed the 26-year-old woman with whom he had been having an affair in Rescaldina. The woman was struck 13 times with a hammer and stabbed while she was tied up, gagged with tape and hooded. The two were filming a hardcore video that he himself had commissioned through a fake social media profile to sell on Only Fans. The day after murdering the 26-year-old, Fontana bought a hatchet and a hacksaw and cut the body into 23 pieces. He tried to remove the strips of skin with tattoos, which were then crucial in identifying the victim. In the following weeks, he attempted to burn the dismembered body and, after keeping it frozen in a freezer purchased online in five black bags, threw it into a ravine in Paline di Borno, in the Brescia area. Carol Maltesi's body was found on 29 March 2022. In the first instance, on 12 June 2023, the Court of Assizes of Busto Arsizio sentenced Fontana to 30 years for murder, suppression and concealment of a corpse, but excluded the most serious aggravating circumstances and spared him a life sentence, considering that there was no evidence of 'significant organisation of the murder‘, starting with the fact that he did not establish an “alibi” and that he had engaged in ’gruesome conduct‘ but confusing for ’about two months to get rid of the body once and for all", contrary to a premeditated plan.
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