Ah Italia! Such a great place to get your head round great art and great women but what a crappy little country. How else can you describe a place that condemns a 76-year-old man to seven years in jail and bans him for life from public office for a crime that both he and his victim deny — a crime to which there were no witnesses and for which there is no evidence?
That is what has just happened in Milan in the infamous Bunga Bunga trial at which three women judges (and no jury) found the media tycoon and three times prime minister guilty on Monday of ‘prostituzione minorile’ (Berlusconi of course is appealing).
According to the prosecution, Silvio Berlusconi — known as ‘Il Cavaliere’, the knight — paid Karima El-Mahroug — known as ‘Ruby Rubacuori’, Ruby the Heart-Stealer — for sex during a four-month period at the start of 2010, when he was prime minister and she was 17.
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