Heavy metal rockers jailed for Satanic murders

THE leader of the Italian heavy metal rock band, Beasts of Satan, was sentenced to 30 years in prison yesterday for killing the group’s singer and two women in Satanic ritual murders.

Andrea Volpe, who hid his face from cameras as he entered the courthouse, had hoped for a lighter sentence after leading authorities to the victims’ bodies and confessing to cult killings that have horrified the Roman Catholic country.

One of his accomplices, Pietro Guerrieri, thought to be the cult’s “gravedigger”, was sentenced to 16 years in prison.