Milan, 27 May (LaPresse) – Chiara Poggi’s body shows “no defensive injuries, either active or passive” because “in particular, there are no deep wounds or fractures” on her arms that would be “consistent” with an attempt to ward off “blows inflicted with a hammer”. This is the view of Dr Sabino Pelosi, the forensic pathologist appointed by Andrea Sempio’s defence team, in the conclusions of the expert report that lawyers Liborio Cataliotti and Angela Taccia submitted electronically to the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Pavia. The defence team for the 38-year-old, who is under investigation for the Garlasco murder, tasked Pelosi with analysing and providing counter-arguments to the report by Professor Cristina Cattaneo, a pathologist and consultant to prosecutors Napoleone, Civardi and De Stefano Rizza. The defence report ‘confirms’ the time of ‘death’ of the 26-year-old woman, killed in Garlasco, as indicated by Cattaneo within the ‘time range’ of ‘7.00–12.30’ on 13 August 2007, and explains that any ‘narrowing’ of this timeframe or more precise times are not ‘justified’ from a medico-legal perspective. The injuries on Chiara Poggi’s body are deemed “compatible, with a very high probability, with the use of a hammer”, the shape of which is described and which would be the weapon capable of explaining the injuries and skull fractures. Chiara Poggi’s “survival” from the start of the murderous attack is estimated to have been “in the order of a few minutes”.