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Italian court lets women lie about adultery

By Malcolm Moore in Rome

Last Updated: 10:28am GMT 08/03/2008

In a victory for Italian adulterers, the country's Supreme Court has ruled that it is acceptable for wives to lie in order to cover up an affair. The court said that a 48-year-old woman from Orbetello in Tuscany, named only as Carla, was within her rights to lie to police over having a lover.

The case arose when her boyfriend, Giovanni, was arrested by police for making abusive phone calls to her husband, Vincenzo.

When the police asked Carla whether she had lent her mobile phone to her lover, she said she did not have a lover and that she had not lent him her phone.

In court, her lawyers argued that she was trying "to save herself from a grave and inevitable stain on her honour". ...

HT: Howard J. Bashman