Shock After Killer Inmate Throws Himself Off Milan Duomo

Milan: A 35-year-old prisoner committed suicide by throwing himself from the Duomo of Milan on Sunday after allegedly killing a woman he worked with in a job he was doing during day release in a case that has caused considerable shock in Italy.

According to Ansa News Agency, the body of Emanuele De Maria’s alleged victim, Chamila Wijesuriyauna, a 50-year-old of Sri Lankan origin who had been missing since Friday, was found in a park pond on Sunday. Video surveillance cameras had captured the pair walking in the area where the woman’s body was found. She had two stab wounds on her throat and injuries on her wrists.

De Maria was being held in Bollate prison for murdering a woman in Castel Volturno, in the province of Caserta, in 2016.