After the tragic death of Italian cycling legend,
Davide Rebellin last year, the man accused of his murder, Wolfgang Rieke has now been denied a proposed plea bargain.
At the end of February, Cycling News first reported that Rieke had reached a plea bargain with the prosecutors although now, after nearly three weeks of deliberation, the judge at the Vicenza court has denied the deal and instead set a date of May 27th for the trial according to Cycling Pro Net, with the accused to be kept under house arrest until then.