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

Italian man who stabbed ex-girlfriend more than 70 times gets life in prison for murder - Body of 22-year-old Giulia Checchettin found in ditch in northern Veneto region

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.

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.

Giulia Cecchettin's murder is one of a string of femicides that have made headlines in Italy in recent years, but it struck a nerve, pushing the issue to the forefront of public discourse.

The sentence against Filippo Turetta was read in a Venice court a little over a year after the body of Giulia Cecchettin was found in a ditch.