Sunday People

Mob justice denied

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IT’S not easy being a womanising playboy on the run – but murdering Mafioso Matteo Messina Denaro has managed it since 1993.

The boss of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, known for driving Porsches, and wearing a Rolex Daytona watch and designer clothes, is wanted for killing prosecutor­s. Don Denaro, 55, nicknamed Diabolik, also tried to kill a TV journalist in a car bombing.

After learning to use a gun at 14, he committed his first of many murders at 18 and is estimated to have killed at least 50 people. He has bragged: “I filled a cemetery all by myself.” SINCE running up an £11,000 bill on his dad’s stolen credit card aged 16, fraudster Mark Acklom has been in and out of jail and on the run. In 2012, he seduced wealthy Bath divorcee Carolyn Woods, claiming to work for MI6 and a Swiss bank, to fleece her of £850,000. After she told police, Acklom fled to Spain, where he got three years for conning two brothers out of £200,000 on the sale of buildings he didn’t own. When he was released from jail in March, Acklom, now 43, vanished again. UK police issued a European arrest warrant and think he is back in Spain.

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