Beheaded by the Mafia: When an undertaker refused to pay extortion money, these gangsters chopped the head off his beloved dog. This is how, eventually, justice was done... and 323 thugs were thrown in jail

On February 10, 1986, a huge trial, a maxiprocesso, took place in Palermo, Sicily. These were the men who had run Palermo for decades, run Sicily, even the whole of Italy: the Mafia bosses. In the Second World War he saw American soldiers in his village, and first encountered peppermint chewing gum. And as soon as the much-needed food aid began to pour in, the Mafia took control of it. Other Mafiosi beheaded the Alsatian dog of an undertaker who had refused to pay them extortion money.