A mafia hitman who went straight is demanding €1 million in damages from a television network after his 14-year-old daughter learnt about his murderous former life from a TV drama.

Pasquale di Filippo said that his daughter leapt to her feet in tears while watching the show about the history of the Sicilian mafia and shouted: “Papa, what have you done?”

Di Filippo said: “She then shut herself in her room and has lived in there for six months, only coming out to go to school — she doesn’t speak to me or even look at me.”

As an assassin for Cosa Nostra in the early 1990s, Di Filippo was involved in the Sicilian mafia’s bloody civil war, which claimed scores of victims, and knew