Families of 43 victims await verdict in Genoa bridge disaster

Francesco Pinto, the former deputy chief prosecutor who worked on the case, has described the length of the proceedings as symptomatic of deeper problems in Italy's justice system, and believes an appeal and a final Supreme Court ruling could together take another two and a half years.

Nearly eight years on, Claudia's sister, Egle Possetti, will be among relatives gathering in a Genoa courtroom on Thursday to hear a first-instance verdict in the trial over the collapse."For so many years, lawyers told us that what happened was no-one's fault, that it was just an accident.