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Domenico Rancadore faces seven years in jail after Westminster court decides he should face justice in his native Italy, after hiding out in west London since 1993.A high-ranking member of the Sicilian mafia, who spent two decades living incognito in the UK, will be extradited to Italy after Westminster magistrates court overturned a previous ruling that prison overcrowding there could breach his human rights.Domenico Rancadore, 65, faces seven years in jail in Italy after senior district judge Howard Riddle ruled in favour of extradition.Rancadore, a former teacher nicknamed “U Profissuri” (The Professor) in Sicilian dialect, had been arguing since his arrest that conditions in Italian prisons were so bad they would breach his human rights. But Riddle said in his judgment: “I am satisfied your … rights will not be breached by your extradition to Italy.”
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