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notorious rapist and killer known as Al Capone is suspected of masterminding from his prison cell the macabre theft of the body of Cyprus’s former president, Tassos Papadopoulos.Officials said his corpse was being held in an unsuccessful ransom bid until its discovery in a cemetery on Monday night – three months after it was stolen from a graveyard just kilometres away.Capone’s alleged involvement is a new twist in an already bizarre case that horrified the divided island and baffled investigators.
There had been no claim of responsibility, no leads and no obvious motive – until an unexpected breakthrough this week.An Indian suspect, whom police said has confessed involvement, disclosed where the body was hidden, apparently after feeling remorse.
Sarbjit Singh, 31, told investigators that he and Capone’s brother exhumed Papadopoulos’s body, and that the theft was ordered by the prisoner, a court heard on Wednesday.Capone, 44, whose real name is Antonis Prokopiou Kitas, has been serving consecutive life sentences since 1994 for the abduction, rape and brutal murder of two foreign women in the tourist resort of Ayia Napa.
His latest alleged outrage has prompted soul-searching among officials and politicians, as well as highly critical media comment.
“A state that cannot exercise any control over a convict in prison cannot inspire great confidence among its citizens,” said an editorial in yesterday’s Cyprus Mail.
A senior opposition parliamentarian, Ionas Nicolaou, was quoted in the same daily saying that “a godfather situation prevails within the prison walls”.
Capone, who anointed himself with his alias many years ago, has embarrassed prison and police officials acutely before.In December 2008, he gave snoozing prison guards the slip at a private Nicosia clinic where he was being treated for stomach ailments.