Tag: Court
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TMH’s story about Svetlana Muscat and Yorgen Fenech in prison comes up during testimony in Court today
It was a very interesting morning in Court today during the Prosecutor’s cross-examination of Yorgen Fenech in his trial. The Prosecutor questioned Yorgen Fenech about his intimate relationship with former Prison Head of Strategy Svetlana Muscat, a story which we were the first to break here. The Judge interrupted the Prosecutor’s questioning, disallowing him from…
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Prince Harry ordered to pay £9.5 million in legal costs after losing Court case against Daily Mail publisher
Prince Harry was ordered to pay £9.5 million after losing a landmark Court case against the Daily Mail publisher, Associated Newspapers over allegations of unlawful information gathering. The payment must be made by August 28 and represents only an interim contribution towards Associated Newspapers’ legal costs, meaning the final bill could be significantly higher. Prince…
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Electrogas was a failure – Siemens
There were interesting revelations yesterday in Court as the defence of Yorgen Fenech tried to bring forth multiple legal points of order to disrupt the proceedings and even the trial. The son of murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, Andrew, testified that at the end of her life his mother was hard at work on her…
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A Court as a clerk for the defence of an accused murderer
Yesterday’s Court reporting about the ongoing trial of Yorgen Fenech, accused of commissioning the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, and details of the testimony of the Prosecution’s witness were marred and disrupted by technical points raised by the accused’s defence. These included points of law about the jurors having news headlines accessible on their…
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Yorgen Fenech admitted paying Melvin Theuma for brokerage services to murder Daphne Caruana Galizia
More astounding revelations continued today in Court during Yorgen Fenech’s trial where as the recordings of his very self-incriminating interrogation with the Police were played in Court. Basically, Yorgen Fenech admitted to paying Melvin Theuma for his brokerage services to murder Daphne Caruana Galizia. However, according to his version of events, he paid Melvin Theuma…
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Yorgen Fenech’s incriminating interrogation
Today in Court, Yorgen Fenech was faced with his own interrogation after he was arrested on November 20th. The interrogation is very self-incriminating and it confirms many of Melvin Theuma‘s statements. Yorgen Fenech confirmed that the Degiorgio brothers, who executed the hit against Daphne Caruana Galizia, were blackmailing him for money. Yorgen Fenech had to…
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Court sends us letter not to publish evidence of Yorgen Fenech’s trial
On the instruction of Yorgen Fenech’s defence lawyers, the Court has instructed us not to publish the evidence of the case against Yorgen Fenech, in relation to our publication of Yorgen Fenech’s chats with Keith Schembri and others. We have so far published the chats which are being referred to and shown in Court, bar…
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Bashar al-Assad has been convicted to death in absentia: his extradition from Moscow seems unlikely
Yesterday, Syria’s Fourth Criminal Court in Damascus handed down landmark death sentences against ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, his brother Maher al-Assad and their cousin Atef Najib, together with six other former officials of their regime. The case was presided over by Judge Fakhr al-Din Mustafa al-Aryan, with associate judges Abdul Hamid Muhammad al-Hamoud and…
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Was there an attempt by the Judiciary to save the hitmen who killed Daphne Caruana Galizia
During his testimony in court today, Melvin Theuma made a very serious statement, saying that Judge Consuelo Scerri Herrera told him that the Degiorgio brothers were likely to get bail. Melvin Theuma said that the judge told him this because she is the neighbour of the father of the partner of his partner’s daughter, who…
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It’s all about Electrogas
From the testimony given by Matthew Caruana Galizia during the ongoing trial of Yorgen Fenech, he reiterated that the Electrogas project, which was the flagship project of the Labour Party and Joseph Muscat during the 2013 general election campaign, dominated Daphne Caruana Galizia’s work during the final years and months of her life. Matthew Caruana…
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Paid by Yorgen Fenech (including their legal defence teams)
As the trial of Yorgen Fenech gets underway and the Degiorgio brothers, George and Alfred, are brought to testify in court, an important fact that should never be dismissed with regard to these hitmen is that they were paid by Yorgen Fenech, with Melvin Theuma testifying that he passed on the payments to them in…
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Updated. Breaking: Two dead bodies found in Marsascala vehicle
Updated 4pm One of the bodies found yesterday night in a car that was parked outside a garage in Marsaskala appears to be of 47 year old Ryan Spiteri, a popular DJ from Zabbar. According to sources, the dead woman is a 41 year old from St Paul’s Bay named Jessica Camilleri who worked as…
