Toto Riina, Mafia ‘boss of bosses’, dies in jail aged 87

Notorious Sicilian Mafia “boss of all bosses” Salvatore “Toto” Riina has died from cancer in jail, aged 87, reports BBC.

Riina was serving 26 life sentences and is believed to have ordered more than 150 murders.

The head of the feared Cosa Nostra spent nearly a quarter of a century on the run before being jailed in 1993. He ordered more murders from jail.

As well as kidney cancer, he was said to have been suffering from a heart condition and Parkinson’s disease.

Riina had been in a medically induced coma and his family had been given special permission to visit him in the prisoners’ wing of the hospital in Parma, northern Italy.

 

Toto Riina, Mafia boss of bosses, dies in jail aged 87

Notorious Sicilian Mafia boss of all bosses Salvatore Toto Riina has died from cancer in jail, aged 87, reports BBC. Riina was serving 26 life sentences and is believed to have ordered more than 150 murders. The head of the feared Cosa Nostra spent nearly a quarter of a century on the run before being jailed in 1993. He ordered more murders from jail. As well as kidney cancer, he was said to have been suffering from a heart condition and Parkinsons disease. Riina had been in a medically induced coma and his family had been given special permission to visit him in the prisoners wing of the hospital in Parma, northern Italy.