Benusiglio, a fashion designer, was found hanged with a scarf from a tree in the gardens of Piazza Napoli in Milan on the night of May 31, 2016.

The Court rejected an appeal by the Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office, which had asked to annul the second-degree verdict of acquittal.

In that verdict, the first instance sentence of 6 years in prison for death as a consequence of stalking had been cancelled.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office had insisted on murder, but that was also rejected by the Court of Appeal.

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