Irish actor denies murdering elderly woman

Irish actor Paudge Behan is being investigated over the murder of an elderly woman stabbed 13 times in her Tuscan villa, Italian police said today.

Carabinieri in Arcidosso, near the town of Grosseto, said that Behan had been questioned about the killing of Silvana Abate. They said the woman, a retired furrier, was stabbed last Thursday.