Murders of three prostitutes in Rome 'maybe premeditated'

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 24 - The alleged killer of three Rome prostitutes may have acted in a premeditated way, prosecutors said Thursday after finding that the former Camorra boss driver had disguised himself before entering the scene of his first two murders, and had deliberately filmed them.
    Giandavide De Pau, the 51-year-old former driver of Camorra boss Michele Senese, is accused of stabbing to death two Chinese sex workers as well as a 65-year-old Colombian trans prostitute, Martha Castano, in the Italian capital last week.
    The Chinese sex workers were named Wednesday as Yang Yun Xia, 45, and Li Yan Rong, 55.
    De Pau allegedly filmed Yang's murder for 14 minutes and Li's murder for 42 minutes.
    The man is to have a psychiatric test based on his previous treatment for mental issues and problems with drugs, his defence team said Wednesday, as police said they were looking into another years-old cold case prostitute murder which DE Pau may have committed.
    Police have said De Pau was looking for counterfeit documents in order to flee the country and that he may have killed other women.
    His lawyers have said he remembers nothing about the alleged murders apart from "all that blood".
    A Rome judge on Wednesday upheld last Thursday's arrest warrant against De Pau and ordered him to be held in "the utmost surveillance".
    There is at least another murder of a prostitute being probed in connection with the triple killing by De Pau, police said Wednesday.
    It is a cold case from many years ago that bears similarities to the murders of two Chinese prostitutes in Via Riboty and one Colombian sex worker in Via Durazzo, both streets in the upscale Prati district of the Italian capital, police said.
    "There are many analogies," police said.
    Police are trying to delve into his personal history and see if he may be linked to the cold case. (ANSA).