Pooka (band) Pooka (band) Pooka was the former songwriting duo of UK guitarists/vocalists Sharon Lewis and Natasha Jones. They took their name from Púca, a mythical Irish goblin with an uneven temper. Pooka were formed early in 1992 at Nottingham Polytechnic. After only a few months of forming the band Lewis and Jones decided to try their luck in London to find a record company to work with. They did this by visiting record companies in person, guitars in hand, and performing their songs live to various talent scouts. This eventually led to their gaining a 5 album recording contract with WEA.
Giuseppe Puca was later arrested and brought to trial in the famous 1983 maxi-trials against the NCO. He was involved in the "Tortora case", after the famous TV talk show host Enzo Tortora who was arrested in May 1983 and sentenced to ten years imprisonment for association with the mafia to corrupt the press. In September 1986, the Corte d'Assise of Naples fully acquitted Enzo Tortora. In 1987 the Supreme Court definitively affirmed Enzo Tortora's total innocence, and he started an action against those magistrates who had unjustly tried and sentenced him. Tortora's name allegedly appeared in the agenda of Puca, however