4:19pm UK, Wednesday June 29, 2011
A jury of seven men and five women decided that 39-year-old Danilo Restivo
was the person who killed the mother-of-two.
Ms Barnett’s body was badly mutilated – her throat was cut from ear-to-ear
and her breasts removed and placed on either side of her head.
Winchester Crown Court heard how Restivo, who had a fetish for secretly
cutting women’s hair, killed Ms Barnett by hitting her over the head with a
blunt object, possibly a hammer.
Bizarrely, some hair snipped from her own head was found below her left hand
and a clump of hair belonging to an unknown person was left in her right hand.
Ms Barnett’s two children – Terry, then 14, and Caitlin, then 11 – found
their mother’s body in the bathroom of the family’s ground floor flat in
Bournemouth, Dorset, in 2002.
Restivo lived opposite the Barnett household and was informally questioned
during house-to-house inquiries following her death.
On one occasion a police officer found a pair of trainers in his house that
had been soaked in a bath of bleach.
Restivo claimed he was just cleaning them to stop them smelling, but the
prosecution suggested he was trying to eradicate all traces of blood.
Forensic tests were also carried out on a green towel found at the murder
scene.
The tests found traces of Restivo’s DNA on it, but the Italian claimed he had
taken the towel over to the seamstress’ house to provide a colour sample for a
pair of curtains she was making for him.
Although Dorset Police did not initially have sufficient evidence to charge
him, they suspected Restivo of the murder for many years.
They carried out covert operations to keep the Italian under extensive
observation, including bugging his house and car.
He was finally arrested on May 19 last year, shortly after the discovery of a
body identified as that of Elisa Claps – an Italian girl missing since 1993.
Her body was found in the loft of a church in Potenza, Italy.
Restivo knew the 16-year-old girl and admitted to Italian investigators at
the time that he loved her, but she had rejected him.
He was also the last person to see her alive.
The prosecution argued there were “striking and dramatic” similarities
between Elisa’s murder and the killing of Ms Barnett.
Strands of hair were found by both victims’ bodies.
Prosecutor Michael Bowes QC told the jury in his closing speech that although
Restivo had an obsession with cutting hair, he did not actually care about
women.
He also said the Italian was forensically savvy and the murder of his
neighbour, Ms Barnett, was not a spur of the moment act of violence but a
pre-meditated killing.
Restivo will be sentenced on Thursday June 30.
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using the number/letter grid:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
A B C D E F G H I
J K L M N O P Q R
S T U V W X Y Z
Where:
A = 1 J = 1 S = 1
B = 2 K = 2 T = 2
C = 3 L = 3 U = 3
D = 4 M = 4 V = 4
E = 5 N = 5 W = 5
F = 6 O = 6 X = 6
G = 7 P = 7 Y = 7
H = 8 Q = 8 Z = 8
I = 9 R = 9
Danilo Restivo
415936 9512946 64
his path of destiny / how he learns what he is here to learn = 64 = Solitary confinement.
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using the number/letter grid:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
A B C D E F G H I
J K L M N O P Q R
S T U V W X Y Z
Where:
A = 1 J = 1 S = 1
B = 2 K = 2 T = 2
C = 3 L = 3 U = 3
D = 4 M = 4 V = 4
E = 5 N = 5 W = 5
F = 6 O = 6 X = 6
G = 7 P = 7 Y = 7
H = 8 Q = 8 Z = 8
I = 9 R = 9
Heather Barnett
8512859 2195522 64
her path of destiny = 64 = Misfortune.
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using the number/letter grid:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
A B C D E F G H I
J K L M N O P Q R
S T U V W X Y Z
Where:
A = 1 J = 1 S = 1
B = 2 K = 2 T = 2
C = 3 L = 3 U = 3
D = 4 M = 4 V = 4
E = 5 N = 5 W = 5
F = 6 O = 6 X = 6
G = 7 P = 7 Y = 7
H = 8 Q = 8 Z = 8
I = 9 R = 9
Elisa Claps
5 1
how she lost her heart’s desire = ES = 51 = Killed/murdered by a serial killer.
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