Alberto Stasi, a 41-year-old man nearing the end of a 16-year sentence handed down in 2015 for murdering his 26-year-old girlfriend and economics graduate Chiara Poggi at Garlasco near Pavia in 2007, was granted partial day release on Friday.
The former economic student and now chartered accountant will be able to stay out of prison part of the day, not only to work but also for social reintegration activities, and will have to return to Bollate Prison in the evening.
At the time of the murder Stasi was 24 and an economics student at Milan's prestigious Bocconi University.
The DNA of Andrea Sempio, a new suspect in the murder, has been found on Poggi's fingernails, experts said last week in their study that led to the reopening of the case last month.
Sempio, 37, is a friend of Poggi's brother Marco.
Stasi said on March 12 that he has confidence that justice will be served and the truth will come out.
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