6:55 p.m
Innocent Oseghale, 32, appeared before a court in Italy to appeal his life sentence.
Pamela Mastropietro, 18, disappeared on January 28, 2018 in Macerata, Italy. His body was found dismembered in two suitcases the next day.
A few days later, Innocent Oseghale was arrested. He’d met Pamela at Diaz Park and taken her home, promising her heroin.
Then he had waited until she was under the influence of drugs to rape her. He then stabbed her with a knife before cutting her alive.
The innocent Oseghale was sentenced to life imprisonment with an 18-year security penalty on Wednesday. He is now appealing part of his sentence, saying he did not rape the young woman before killing her.
A successful appeal will likely reduce the life sentence.
Pamela’s mother came to the hearing wearing a T-shirt depicting her daughter’s decapitated and dismembered body.
“After five years I lose faith in justice. I wonder what the point of trying Oseghale again is to challenge the sexual violence and open up the possibility of a reduced sentence,” Alessandra testified.
“Didn’t he use enough violence to deserve a life sentence? (…) Anyone who saw these pictures knew that they would shake their conscience if they were published.”
Alessandra also renewed her call for Oseghale’s accomplices to be caught.
She said: “Other people were with Osenghale the day he killed Pamela. I have the feeling that no one is being investigated. No one is looking for these men.”