A fugitive Mafia boss wanted by the Italian authorities told officers who arrested him in the UK “I’m not going back, they will kill me”, a court heard.

The High Court in London has reserved judgment on a human rights bid by an Irish paedophile to block his return to the US where he is wanted for allegedly abusing three girls in the 1990s.

The High Court has reserved judgment on a human rights bid by an American paedophile to block being returned to the US where he is wanted for allegedly abusing three girls in the mid-Nineties.

A BRITISH poker champion accused of killing his wife then spending her money during a “playboy” weekend in Las Vegas fears he faces the death penalty in the US, a court heard yesterday.