Mafia princess who lives in Blackpool fights extradition to Italy

Published: 7:30AM GMT twenty-seven February 2010

Marisa Merico faces extradition to Italy to offer the rest of her jail tenure for drug offences Photo: CENTRAL NEWS

Marisa Merico, 40, served fourteen months of a 42 month judgment in the late 1990s and returned to the UK before long after. But Italy wants her to offer some-more time in Milan after delectable her release.

Her father is Mafia Don Emilio DiGiovine, who was locked up for thirty years in the early 90s. He is right away underneath a declare insurance intrigue in his homeland after he allegedly gave justification about the Mafia in sell for leniency.

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Since afterwards he has been the aim of assassination, and Ms Merico says she cannot lapse to Milan given her hold up would be at risk from her mafiosi dad"s enemies.

And were she to be forcibly returned, her dual immature kids one the daughter of an additional Mafia arch would be left to deflect for themselves, with the son taken in to care, she said.

In the initial day of her extradition conference at City of Westminster Magistrate"s Court, Ms Merico, who lives in Blackpool and has penned an journal called "Mafia Princess", combined that there would be no one to see after her cancer-stricken mom if she was extradited.

She said: "After the mistakes I done when I was a immature lady of about eighteen I longed for to purify the line-up purify and begin a new life.

"That"s since I came behind to the UK. I did things I bewail and my impasse with my family, generally my father.

"My mom is unequivocally ill and fragile. She has bone cancer and never recovered from a cadence she had a couple of years ago.

"I am her main carer and there isn"t unequivocally any one else to see after her. She needs assistance with everything."

She added, whilst crying: "I have to see her each day."

When asked if her ex-husband, Mafia trainer Bruno Merico, is concerned in the upbringing of her children, she replied: "No."

She continued: "My daughter doesn"t even know her dad. He"s been in jail given she was about one.

"He is expelled right away but he is not unequivocally concerned in her upbringing. My son"s father died when I was 3 months profound so if I have to go behind to Italy my daughter would have to see after my son or he would be put in to encourage care.

"It"s a big shortcoming for her as she is usually eighteen and has only been offering a place in university. It would have a vital stroke on her life."

Merico additionally pronounced her 9 year old son suffered from romantic problems given of her detain aver and that he was "below average" at school.

She added: "We are not a close weave family and my mom isn"t able of seeking after the children."

The conference was shelved until May.