Jul 19 2007
An Albanian gangster has been gunned down amid a bloody turf war over the right to rob the parking metres in Tony Blair’s street.
Even as police protections team were assessing security at the former Prime Minister’s new London home in Connaught Square, criminals were clashing over who ‘owned’ metres in the exclusive neighbourhood. Continue Reading »
Jun 08 2007
After 25 years, two inquests and a very lengthy trial - the mystery remains.
The verdict of the court was that Roberto Calvi was murdered - but the evidence against the five accused, said the judge, was insufficient and at times contradictory. Continue Reading »
Jun 07 2007
A court in Rome today cleared all five defendants accused of murdering “God’s banker” Roberto Calvi, whose body was found 25 years ago hanging under London’s Blackfriars bridge. Continue Reading »
Jun 02 2007
Gennaro Panzuto has been extradited to Italy from the UK
(BBC) An alleged mafia boss suspected of four murders in Italy has been extradited from the UK, according to City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
Gennaro Panzuto, 32, was arrested in Garstang near Preston, Lancs, by the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency. Continue Reading »
May 29 2007
THE Manchester wife of a Mafia boss jailed in Italy for murder, drugs trafficking and extortion has said she ‘loves him to death’.
Ann Hathaway (pictured), 44, from Middleton, said it was ‘love at first sight’ when she met Antonio ‘Uncle Tony’ Rinzivillo while working as a dancer in 1979. They have two daughters but he was jailed for 30 years in 2001. Continue Reading »
May 19 2007
A man wanted in Italy on suspicion of four murders connected to the Naples mafia has been arrested in the UK.
Police traced Gennaro Panzuto, 32, to a flat in Preston, Lancashire, after a search which lasted more than a year. Continue Reading »
May 19 2007
PRESTON, England, May 18 (UPI) — British authorities arrested a man they allege is a Mafia boss who traveled to England to avoid a clash between rival mob families in Italy.
The Telegraph reported Friday Italian detectives tracked Gennaro Panzuto to a home outside the Preston and surprised the alleged mobster and his neighbors earlier this week. Continue Reading »
May 17 2007
On Thursday lunchtime, Enrico Mariotti is expecting to receive his final visitor at the house where he has lived for the past seven years.
When the police officer knocks on his door, the grandfather-of-four plans to invite him in and offer him a cup of coffee before accepting a lift to Gatwick. Continue Reading »
May 09 2007
A mother of two from Rochdale accused of helping to run a mafia empire in Italy was today back in Britain after agreeing a deal with Italian prosecutors.
Ann Hathaway, 44, flew into Manchester airport last night after she was handed a suspended sentence and released from a Sicilian jail after admitting to mafia associations.
This morning, a “welcome home” banner hung in the window of her terraced house in the Middleton area. No one was answering the door. Continue Reading »
Apr 15 2007
A BRITISH housewife is the Mafia’s top murder target — because they fear she is about to spill the beans on their criminal empire.
Ann Hathaway, 44, has already offered to admit laundering cash and collecting protection money for her jailed Sicilian godfather husband Antonio Rinzivillo. Continue Reading »
