Mafia love triangle examined for motive

SHE is the former Mafia man's wife who allegedly betrayed him with two of his gangster colleagues - one who was shot dead and the other who lost a leg in a shotgun blast.

Now a coronial inquest in Sydney will ask the question - were Jennifer Jolliffe's affairs motive for murder?

A special investigation by The Daily Telegraph has uncovered allegations of a love triangle involving Jolliffe, now a 49-year-old divorcee living in Melbourne, and Griffith men Antonio Romeo and Rocco Barbaro.

At the time of the affairs she was Jennifer Sergi, married to alleged Calabrian Mafia figure Antonio "Young Tony" Sergi.