High-fiving rapists blame ‘Italian cultural differences’

Two Italian students who high-fived eachother after filming a vicious rape attack should be given lighter sentences because they come from a ‘different cultural background’, a court heard today. Ferdinando Orlando, 25, and Lorenzo Costanzo, 26, attacked a 23-year-old schooltaecher at the Toy Room Club in Soho, just six minutes after meeting her on the dancefloor. They raped her so severely that the woman may not be able to have children but their barristers told Isleworth Crown Court the pair…

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