Gianluca Ciardelli,

Gianluca Ciardelli, a 63-year-old Rai journalist and author, killed his wife Lorella Tomei in her sleep in May 2021, in their apartment in Rome in the Balduina district. The first Assize Court of Rome acquitted him because he was judged incapable of understanding and will . The man will have to spend 15 years in a Rems in Ceccano in the province of Frosinone. INCAPABLE OF UNDERSTANDING OR WANTING — Rems is a facility for prisoners with psychiatric problems. The public prosecutor Antonio Verdi explained how, given the brutal crime, as representative of the prosecution he would have asked for the maximum sentence but "the act was placed in a state of incapacity of understanding and will of the subject". The man hit his wife in her sleep and then called her son telling him that his mother didn't wake up: "they did something to her" he said. When the police arrived he was calm in bed next to the body he was...