Italian with hair fetish mutilated his victims

A MAN with a hair fetish murdered and mutilated a seamstress with the same “hallmark” method he used to kill a teenager in Italy, a court has heard.

Italian national Danilo Restivo, 39, is alleged to have entered the flat of his neighbour Heather Barnett in Bournemouth, Dorset, in 2002, bludgeoned her with a hammer and cut her throat down to the spinal column.

He then cut off the breasts of Barnett, 48, and put them by her head, while leaving a clump of someone else’s hair in her right hand and some of her own underneath her left hand, Winchester Crown Court heard.