Fifteen years later the fact | DPCP will not appeal Adel Sorella’s acquittal

After 15 years and three trials, the legal saga of Adele Sorella, twice convicted of killing her 8- and 9-year-old daughters and then acquitted last December, will go no further.

The Director of Criminal and Penal Prosecutions (DPCP) indicated on Friday, at the end of the time limit he had to appeal the acquittal of the mafia boss’s wife, that he would not proceed.

The DPCP says it has conducted a “rigorous analysis of the reasons supporting this (latest) decision” and has concluded that “although this judgment was not anticipated, in the light of the applicable rules of law, the DPCP concludes that in this case cannot appeal.”

“Remember that, to justify the Court of Appeal’s intervention after an acquittal, the prosecution must raise an error of law and that simple disagreement is not a sufficient reason,” added his spokesperson.^E Audrey Roy Cloutier.

The deaths of Adele Sorella’s two daughters, Sabrina and Amanda De Vito, will therefore remain a mystery.

The woman was acquitted last December at the end of a third trial, due to “gaps” in evidence and the possibility that the mafia killed the girls.

On March 31, 2009, Adele Sorella left her residence unannounced before being found in her damaged car during the night. His daughters Amanda and Sabrina were later found dead later in the day by their uncles.

He was in the living room at the time, still wearing his school uniform, and no signs of violence or forced entry could be found on his body or the home.

A long story

A third trial was ordered by the Court of Appeals because the judge in the second trial barred the defense from arguing the theory of organized crime involvement.

You should know that at the time of the incident the little girls’ father and Adele Sorella’s husband, Giuseppe Di Vito, was the leader of an influential mafia clan who had been on the run for three years. He died of cyanide poisoning in a maximum security prison in 2013.

Adele Sorella became paranoid after her husband’s sudden departure. She attempted suicide three times. According to experts, she suffered from major depression and pathological dissociation. Amnesia prevented him from even remembering the fateful day when the girls died.

During the first trial on June 24, 2013, the decision was overturned by the Court of Appeals, during which she was convicted by a jury of first degree murder.

An appeal by the prosecution remained possible, but a fourth murder trial would be virtually unprecedented.

With Louis-Samuel Perron, Pres