THE MAN accused of murdering a mum-of-two with a hammer before mutilating her body has been found guilty of her murder.
Danilo Restivo has today been found guilty of the murdering Heather Barnett.
Restivo, 39, of Chatsworth Road, Charminster, hit Heather over the head with a hammer-type object before dragging her body to the bathroom and mutilating her.
He cut off both her breasts and placed a clump of someone else’s hair in one hand and strands of her own hair under her left hand.
Her body was discovered by Heather’s children Terry, then 14, and Caitlin, then 11, in the family home in Capstone Road, Charminster, when they returned home from school on November 12, 2002.
The prosecution claim Heather’s death and that of Italian schoolgirl Elisa Claps were so “strikingly similar” that only one man could be responsible.
Elisa disappeared on September 12, 1993 from Potenza in Italy. Her mummified remains were discovered in the loft of the church of the most holy trinity in Potenza in March last year.
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