A High Court judge has awarded €450,000 damages to a woman after finding her life was devastated as a result of being sexually abused by a man over a 10-year period, beginning when she was just four years old.

Anna Nicole Smith’s psychiatrist and boyfriend were convicted of conspiring to use false names to obtain prescription drugs for the reality TV star.

A MAFIA informant who disappeared nearly a year ago was tortured and her body dissolved in acid by her former partner and other family members angry that she had cooperated with authorities, Italian police said last night.