Mafia boss ordered hit on his daughter over policeman lover

ROME: A Sicilian mafia boss who ordered the assassination of his daughter from behind bars because she was in love with a policeman has been arrested – after his son refused to carry out the hit.

Godfather Pino Scaduto began blaming his earlier arrest and conviction on his daughter’s burgeoning relationship with a senior Italian policeman.

Investigators scouring his prison correspondence discovered chilling references to a specific ‘gift’ he wanted to give to his daughter.Detectives say Scaduto, who was released from prison in April, then told his son to kill her, with the words: “Your sister has become an informer”.

But Scaduto junior – who is already facing a separate murder charge – was reluctant to obey.

“I don’t want to do it. If you want it done, do it yourself.” he said, in a conversation intercepted by police.

Scaduto senior, who rules over the Bagheria syndicate near the Sicilian capital of Palermo, then tried to hand the job to another person, who turned it down on the basis it was a family dispute. — AFP