Italy's top court has ruled that a homeless man should not be punished for spending the night in a private residence.
An appeals court in Brescia, northern Italy, had sentenced the man to three months and ten days in jail after he allegedly snuck into a private home in a Lombard town.
The man had entered a house in Desenzano del Garda on the shores of Lake Garda in late November the previous year.
Initially, he had been accused of burglary, however the charge was downgraded to trespassing (violazione di domicilio) by the appeals court in 2015.
But in the ruling published on Thursday, supreme court judges quashed the ruling, saying the man should not be punished due to his "particular circumstances of poverty and exclusion".
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How ridiculous! Do people not have a right to control who gets to be on their property any longer if the offender is poor?!