The former head of Italy's motorway operator, Giovanni Castellucci, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison over the 2018 collapse of Genoa's Morandi bridge, which killed 43 people. He was one of 57 defendants tried in Genoa, and his conviction forms part of a wider verdict handed down after eight years of investigation and legal proceedings, offering victims' families a measure of closure while Castellucci's lawyers vowed to appeal.

Of the 57 people on trial, 32 were found guilty, including Castellucci, who was already serving a six-year sentence for a separate 2013 road disaster. Another senior Autostrade per l'Italia official, Michele Donferri Mitelli, received 11 years, while ex-deputy Paolo Berti got five and a half years, considerably less than prosecutors had sought. Twenty-five defendants were acquitted or cleared under statute-of-limitations rules, despite prosecutors originally requesting a combined 400 years in jail on charges including manslaughter and failure to maintain the ageing viaduct, which collapsed during a storm in August 2018.