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An Italian shepherd has been freed from prison after spending more than three decades locked up for a triple murder on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia – a crime that he never committed. An appeals court acquitted 58-year-old Beniamino Zuncheddu of all charges on Friday evening in Rome. The judges overturned the sentence of life imprisonment because the shepherd “did not commit the crime.” “This is the end of a nightmare,” Zuncheddu said after the acquittal. The shepherd had been found guilty by a previous court of murdering three other men – the owner of a farm, his son and another shephe…