The 22-year-old Italian student Filippo Turetta was given a life sentence after confessing to killing his ex-girlfriend Giulia Cecchettin with a knife last year.
Italy was enthralled with the murder case, which led to a contentious discussion on violence against women.
Gino Cecchettin, Giulia’s father, told reporters following the reading of the sentence in a Venice court: “Nobody is giving me Giulia back so I am neither more relieved nor more sad than I was yesterday or than I will be tomorrow.”
He went on to say that “we’ll have to fight together as a society… we look ahead and hope another dad won’t find himself at my place” in the fight against gender sexual assault.
