12 Jan, 2017 @ 10:44
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Mafia boss with ‘permanent erection’ arrested in Spain following seven years on the run

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mafia-bossA MAFIA boss who is notorious for having a ‘permanent erection’ has been arrested in Spain after going on the run seven years ago.

Italian Francesco Castriotta had been under house arrest while he awaited trial in Milan in 2009.

The 42 year old had begged the judge to not remand him to jail because his painful condition – priapism – would cause other inmates to mock him.

He is said to have sobbed in court while holding a bag of ice to his groin.

The judge took pity on the mobster and ordered him to be on house arrest until his trial, but he fled before he was due in court.

He was seized in El Vendrell in Spain yesterday, and will begin serving the 20-year sentence he was handed in his absence.

Castriotta said his condition was due to years of taking the class A drug cocaine.

 

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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