Filippo Turetta, 23, was found guilty of murdering his girlfriend Giulia Cecchettin in Assize Court of Venice, Italy on Tuesday, Dec. 3 after he confessed to stabbing her to death

Turetta, who had fled by car to Germany, confessed to the murder after his arrest and extradition to Italy. The prosecution had asked for a life sentence for the 22-year-old man, while the defence admitted his guilt but pleaded for a more lenient ruling.

ROME, DEC 3 - Filippo Turetta on Tuesday got life imprisonment for murdering his ex girlfriend Giulia Cecchettin in November last year in a femicide that shocked Italy for its brutality and the young age of the protagonists and forced a reckoning with the issues of femicide and gender violence in the country.

The Venice prosecutor requests life imprisonment for Filippo Turetta, accused of the murder of Giulia Cecchettin.

On Tuesday, more than a year after Ms. Cecchettin’s killing, her former boyfriend, Filippo Turetta, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, concluding a case that has outraged people across Italy, where chauvinistic attitudes remain deeply rooted at all levels of society.

ROME, DEC 3 - A Venice court on Tuesday is expected to announce its verdict on Filippo Turetta, a 23-year-old man who has confessed to brutal murder last year of his 22-year-old former girlfriend Giulia Cecchettin in a case that shocked Italy and highlighted its problem with femicide and gender-based violence.

A judge in Italy has sentenced a 23-year-old man to life in prison for the stabbing murder of his former girlfriend, a heinous act of femicide that has put violence against women in the spotlight in this country.

A 22-year-old Italian man who confessed in court to killing his ex-girlfriend was convicted of her murder on Tuesday and sentenced to life in prison in a case that fueled national outrage over violenc

A student who admitted murdering his ex-girlfriend in a brutal case that sparked outrage and soul searching in Italy will be sentenced Tuesday.