Tag: Bernice Cassar
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Man jailed for 40 years for murdering estranged wife in Malta’s first femicide case
Roderick Cassar has been sentenced to 40 years in prison after admitting to murdering his estranged wife, Bernice Cassar, in what was Malta’s first case charged as willful femicide. The 42-year-old changed his plea to guilty on Wednesday as part of a plea bargain, days before his jury trial was due to begin. The court…
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Bernice Cassar was not failed by the system: she was failed by the Police
Under this Labour government, no one wants to take accountability for anything. The Labour government wants to absolve itself from any responsibility for the current crisis in domestic violence by blaming the system. It’s always convenient to put blame on abstract concepts such as the “system” instead of simply finding the material faults and causes…
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Where’s the indignation for the lives of real women?
This is truly the age of wimp-political leadership as both major political leaders keep taking positions by convenience rather than literally doing their job and taking a leadership position on issues. On one hand, we have had a Prime Minister who was incapable of taking a position when a woman’s life was in danger and…
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The price of posturing
Following the murder and femicide of Pauline Dembksa, Prime Minister Robert Abela addressed the nation’s concerns about violence against women by introducing the concept of femicide into law. The aim of the law was to make life sentences in prison more probable in the court’s judgment if the murder was perpetrated specifically against the female…
