Messina Denaro has first chemotherapy session in jail

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 19 - Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, who has cancer, had his first session of chemotherapy in prison on Thursday since being arrested in Sicily on Monday after spending 30 years on the run, sources said.
    This may have been the reason 60-year-old mobster failed to take part in a court hearing on Thursday regarding his conviction for being among the mobsters who ordered the 1992 bombings in which anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino were among the victims.
    Messina Denaro, who is in a maximum-security prison in L'Aquila, could have taken part in the appeal-trial hearing in Caltanissetta via video link. Proceedings in the trial were adjourned to March 9. (ANSA).