Italy's Court of Cassation has rejected an appeal by Salvatore Allard, making his 16-year prison sentence definitive in the case of the killing of police officer Domenico Attianese, according to Il Mattino.
The case concerns an attempted robbery at a jewellery shop in Pianura, Naples. Il Mattino reports that the incident occurred on 4 December 1986 and that Attianese, who was off duty, intervened to stop the robbery and was killed.
According to the same report, the investigation was revived years later through fingerprint and biological-trace analysis linked to items recovered from the robbery. Independent reports from ANSA and Corriere Napoli, both dated 26 October 2026, confirm that the Cassation rejected an appeal and that a conviction became definitive roughly four decades after the killing.
Il Mattino also names Giovanni Rendina in connection with the case, describing a 30-year sentence that was not yet definitive in its account. The full Cassation ruling and case number were not identified in the available reports, and accessible summaries differ on the exact date of the incident and the length of the definitive sentence. The details above follow the detailed Il Mattino account.
