GUILTY Italy - Ashley Olsen, 35, American, strangled in Florence, 9 Jan 2016

[Niner]

So... it's been a bit since anything happened in this case.

Will we not hear anything from the Italian courts on "when" this suspect gets his day in court?

TIA! :wave:

 

[Romulus]

http://www.nanopress.it/cronaca/201...-il-caso-sull-omicidio-dell-americana/125157/

It reopens the case of Ashley Olsen, the American girl murdered in Florence on 8 January. The forensic examination on the corpse of 35-year old evidence that the death occurred instantaneously between 12 and 12.30 by strangulation, but at that time the alleged murderess, Cheik Diaw had already left the apartment where the American girl was found dead .


Cheik Diaw, 28 year old Senegalese, had met Ashley in the night between 7 and 8 January the two had gone to her apartment, drank, used cocaine and had sex. Cheik Diaw was arrested a few days after the discovery of the corpse, the man had confessed and told it had no intention to kill Ashley and had explained that the girl had fallen banging his head after a furious quarrel. Following the medical expertise Human lawyers have reiterated that the cameras have taken over Cheik Diaw away at 11.30, therefore, an hour before the girl's death.


Lawyers can therefore believe the intervention of another person who, after leaving the studio Cheik Diaw, could have strangled the young woman, already suffering from head beating after the quarrel with their client.

 

[JerseyGirl]

The defence asked to see CCTV footage from the streets around Olsen's apartment on January 9, the day her Italian artist boyfriend Federico Fiorentini found her in her flat with trauma to the head and signs of ligature strangulation.

CCTV footage showed Diaw leaving her flat at 11:30 that morning, but an autopsy put the victim's time of death at 12-12:30 - information that was only released to the defence today.

"This is why we believe another person was at the scene of the crime," Diaw's defence attorneys told the court.

As well, the autopsy showed Olsen's head trauma was caused two hours before her death - which also implies someone other than the defendant could have strangled her later.

According to initial reports, Diaw admitted under interrogation to being responsible for her death but said it was not intentional.


http://www.ansa.it/english/news/gen...ied_a5e65aee-6a8d-4f06-8edc-44350905f31f.html

 

[Patagonia]

It seems much more likely to me that the autopsy was wrong regarding the time of her death, than someone else coming over and killing her after Diaw had already left. The 'time of death' in autopsy reports isn't really an exact science, down to a minute, it's more of an estimation, an 'educated guess' kind of thing.

Also, there is a security camera footage that should clarify this further, as it will show if anyone apart from Diaw entered her building at that time.

But in any case, I find this 'two different assailants' theory highly unlikely.

 

[PastTense]

A prosecutor in Florence has asked for conviction and a life sentence for a Senegalese man accused of murdering an American woman in her apartment... Ashley Olsen, 35, was found dead in her flat in January 2016. An autopsy found that she had been strangled and suffered skull fractures. The Italian news agency said Prosecutor Giovanni Solinas on Monday asked the court to convict and impose Italy's harshest criminal punishment for defendant Cheik Tidiane Diaw. A verdict could come on Thursday.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/12/19/life-sentence-sought-in-murder-american-woman-in-italy.html

The Florentine releases the following statement on behalf of Jade Moss and the family of Ashley Olsen.

"The last time we spoke to the press we had very little information and understanding of what actually happened to Ashley that night. Since then, the evidence collected by police and shown in court has been overwhelming. The reconstruction of her last hours has been extremely difficult to see and hear, as well as the baseless judgements made against Ashley. Her family, partner, and friends have never doubted her integrity in the wake of this tragedy. The only thing Ashley was guilty of is her childlike naivety and trust of all human beings. We all read the terrible victim blaming fiction that was printed in certain publications. It hurt us deeply, and was all the more vicious as Ashley is not here to speak up for herself. So we will never stop speaking out on her behalf. Ashley Olsen was a strong, talented and a genuinely kind woman. She was a daughter, sister, girlfriend, and friend; so much more than just a name in the press.

http://www.theflorentine.net/news/2016/12/ashley-olsen-final-verdict-florence/

 

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