Police investigating the desecration of a Muslim woman’s body in a hospital mortuary covered with rashers of bacon, today revealed they have seized around 2,000 photographs, negatives and slides of dead people believed to have been taken at the mortuary. The trial of five men charged in connection with an alleged plot to kidnap singer Victoria Beckham collapsed today. She was quite adamant about it.”On the face of it, Gashi, it seems, had lied to the police about the history of the matter.”This new information prompted the prosecution to review this case with some degree of care, particularly because there was some evidence Gashi had instigated and incited individuals to commit offences in the Wandsworth investigation.”Gashi claimed to police that he had been paid only £1,000 for expenses in the Wandsworth investigation.Mr Altman said: “He said his motive was simply that criminals should not be able to get away with these things In other words, he was a moral crusader.”. The Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera failed to appear on the news stands yesterday after its journalists went on strike over the resignation of the editor – reportedly under pressure from the government. The Writers’ Committee said the strike had been called “in protest at … a change that has been brought about by a method with no clarity”.Stefano Folli, the man appointed to replace Mr Bertoli, is a political commentator with the paper who has cordial relations with many politicians Mr Berlusconi denied intervening at the newspaper.. The murder of the cousin of a Mafia turncoat has raised fears in Sicily that the Mob is back in business.

Scarantino was both cousin and brother-in-law to the Mafia supergrass Vincenzo Scarantino, the Mafia informer who gave the police details of the spectacular assassination in 1992 of anti-Mob prosecutor Paolo Borsellino, naming himself as one of those involved.In the 1980s, as authorities began clamping down on the Mafia with a series of so-called “maxi-trials”, the Sicilian capital often rang with the sound of gunfire as relatives of betrayed mafiosi took revenge.Detectives who have tapped the mob’s phone conversations say a truce was then imposed from the top because many cases are still going through the courts. It was expected to end when the Court of Cassation, Italy’s highest appeal court, delivers its verdict.If that was the plan, the bosses with grudges against supergrasses appear to have jumped the gun But other explanations for the killing are also on offer. One rumour is that the victim had passed important information to the police leading to the arrest of one Giuseppe Urso, sentenced to life for his part in Borsellino’s murder. Those close to Urso, according to this theory, have taken revenge.

Pietro Grasso, public prosecutor of Palermo, said: “It’s an alarming event, above all for the manner in which it was carried out.”Vincenzo Scarantino, 35, has twice made confessions which he twice retracted. After the second time he was expelled from the supergrass protection programme, and is serving time in a jail in northern Italy.. The well-meaning young man in smart clothes shouted angrily at the hooded French anarchists spray-painting “smash capitalism” on someone’s garage door. (If you are going to smash capitalism, why not start with someone’s small business?) “We are here to protest peacefully Why do you do this?” the courageous young man demanded.