Extreme Makeover - Nazi Edition

Neo-Nazi's makeover costs $150 per day
By Tamara Lush, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. - John Allen Ditullio is a walking billboard for the neo-Nazi movement: a large 15-centimetre swastika tattooed under his right ear, barbed wire inked down the right side of his face, and an extreme and very personal vulgarity scrawled on one side of his neck.

Jurors will never see any of it. A judge has ruled that the state must pay a cosmetologist up to $150 a day during Ditullio's trial on murder and attempted murder charges and apply makeup to cover up the black ink.

Judge Michael Andrews, acting on a request by Ditullio's lawyer, ruled that the tattoos are potentially offensive and could influence a jury's opinion in the state's death penalty case against the 23-year-old accused of donning a gas mask, breaking into a neighbour's home and stabbing two people, killing one of them.

Prosecutors allege that Ditullio broke into his neighbour's home and stabbed two people - injuring 44-year-old Patricia Wells, the home's owner, and killing Kristofer King, a 17-year-old visitor and friend of Wells' son.

Wells lived next door to a mobile home that was commonly known as "the Nazi compound," which had large swastika flags flying on the property, authorities said. Ditullio was arrested at the mobile home after a SWAT standoff.

Authorities called the stabbings a hate crime, and Wells agreed, previously telling local media that she believed Ditullio attacked her because she had a black friend - and because her own son was gay and Ditullio may have mistaken King for her son.

This story may be the biggest crock of shit I've read in years. This guy needs to realize that perception shapes reality and there are consequences for his actions. And the action of getting a swastika tattoed on his face might result in the consequence of being hated by a jury. He has the right to get whatever tattoo he wants but he can't pick and choose when and where he wants his freak flag to fly. Noone was there to put concealer on the X Manson carved into his skull and its a good thing.