Two court hearings that could determine the future course of Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right government got under way in Turin and Milan on Friday morning.
Mr Berlusconi, Italy’s billionaire prime minister who accuses elements of the judiciary of waging a political witch hunt, flew to the other end of Italy early on Friday putting a stretch of highway between himself and the court in Milan where he is charged with bribing David Mills, his former UK lawyer, to give false testimony.
