http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/811795-mans-severed-head-burnt-in-pizza-ovenAlberto Arrighi allegedly killed Giacomo Brambilla in his gun shop in Como and cut off his victim's head.
He then drove Brambilla's decapitated corpse and dumped it in a river near Domodossola, a town in Piedmont near the Swiss border.
When he didn't return from his meeting with Arrighi, Brambilla's girlfriend called the police, who went to the gun shop and found blood stains on the floor which someone had attempted to clean off.
They arrested Arrighi and it was discovered that he had been struggling to repay money he'd borrowed fromBrambilla.
"The whole thing was an act of momentary madness, the result of some sort of financial dispute between the two men," said a lawyer acting on behalf of Mr Arrighi.
The incident was described by the Milan-based newspaper Corriere Della Sera as a 'tale of blood and money' worthy of Edgar Allan Poe.
