U.S. citizens Finnegan Lee Elder Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth, accused of the murder of the Italian Carabinieri paramilitary police officer Mario Cerciello Rega, heard the verdict in their trial, in Rome, Italy, May 5, 2021. REUTERS/Remo Casilli
ROME (Reuters) -Two American tourists were sentenced to life in prison by an Italian court on Wednesday for the 2019 murder of a policeman near their Rome hotel in a case that shook the nation.
Finnegan Lee Elder, who was 19 at the time, had admitted to stabbing Mario Cerciello Rega in the early hours of July 26, 2019, while his friend Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth, then 18, was tussling with another police officer.
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