Woman Gets 18 Years for Killing Purse Snatcher [View all]

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A socialite who killed a mugger by running him over to reclaim her stolen bag has been sentenced to 18 years under house arrest.

Italian businesswoman Cinzia Dal Pino, 65, was caught on street CCTV ramming the Moroccan man with her white Mercedes GLE in Viareggio, Tuscany, in September 2024.

The footage shows the socialite swerve off the road in her £80,000 SUV and repeatedly plough into Noureddine 'Said' Mezgui, 52.

As he fell to the ground, Dal Pino reversed and then drove forward, crushing him under the front wheels of her two-and-a-half-tonne motor.

But as the Moroccan national writhed in agony, Dal Pino reversed and ran over him twice more until he stopped moving. She stepped out of the luxury vehicle in her stiletto heels before she took back her bag, then continued to drive off.

Mezgui was later declared dead at the scene after passersby called paramedics.

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15891763/Socialite-ran-killed-Moroccan-mugger-stole-bag-sentence-Italy.html

Her lawyer Enrico Marzaduri dismissed the video and said last year: 'I understand from the autopsy that it was certainly the initial impact that proved fatal and there are no tyre marks on the body.

'She just wanted to stop him and was aiming for his legs. She is suffering for what she did and is feeling remorse for what happened.'