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EARTHDATE: April 27, 2008

Official News page 10


REAL LIFE NEWS: FRIENDS REUNITED KILLER JAILED FOR LIFE

by Hazed

Franceso Matta, a 56 year old Italian man, has been jailed for life for murder - and it's all the fault of Friends Reunited, the social networking site which puts old school friends back in touch with each other.

Matta's wife left him after she rekindled a 30 year old romance with old school chum Flight Lieutenant Stephen Keen. They had dated when teenagers, but broke up when Keen joined the Royal Air Force after leaving school. They led separate lives for 30 years before hooking up again in 2004 via Friends Reunited. This prompted Keen to move back to the UK from the US, and Matta's wife to leave her husband and set up home with Keen in Tiverton, Devon, in southwest England.

But Matta wouldn't accept that his wife had left him, and traveled from his home in Sardinia to Tiverton where he brutally stabbed Keen in front of his ex-wife. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter but denied murder, claiming diminished responsibility, but the jury rejected this and convicted him of murder. The judge pointed to the fact that he had planned the murder before leaving Sardinia, so it was most definitely premeditated, when passing sentence and jailing him for life.


 

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