Friday's sitting in the trial of Yorgen Fenech was dominated by explosive testimony from two witnesses, with Johann Cremona accusing one of the defence lawyers of meeting Keith Schembri on the eve of the former chief of staff's testimony, and former OPM security officer Kenneth Camilleri claiming that when he sought a meeting with then-prime minister
Tempers flared inside the Courtroom as Johann Cremona, Yorgen Fenech’s former business associate, accused Fenech’s defence lawyer Charles Mercieca of maintaining contact with former OPM chief of staff Keith Schembri, producing a screenshot in open court that he said showed a selfie Mercieca had sent to Schembri. The confrontation came during the continued
The trial of Yorgen Fenech continues on Friday after jurors spent the week hearing secret recordings and testimony about clandestine meetings held in the aftermath of Daphne Caruana Galizia's murder. Fenech denies complicity in the October 2017 murder. He was charged after self-confessed middleman Melvin Theuma turned state witness and told police
The jury hearing the trial of Yorgen Fenech is set to resume today after another day dominated by secretly recorded conversations in which murder middleman Melvin Theuma repeatedly implicated the businessman in the plot to assassinate journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Johann Cremona, a business associate of Fenech, is set to continue being cross-examined
Johann Cremona spent hours distancing himself from secretly recorded conversations played before jurors on Thursday, acknowledging contact with former OPM chief of staff Keith Schembri while insisting that many of the statements he made about the murder investigation had been fabricated to reassure Melvin Theuma. Hours of secretly recorded conversations
On Thursday afternoon, jurors who will be responsible for determining the fate of alleged murder accomplice Yorgen Fenech listened to a recording made by confessed murder middleman Melvin Theuma, indicating his despair and anger about the murder plot. At one point, he said he would be “better off if they killed me”, in reference to those involved in
Yorgen Fenech’s former business partner Johann Cremona admitted on Thursday that he turned to disgraced former OPM chief of staff Keith Schembri for reassurance after Fenech’s arrest, telling jurors he was panicking and feared he too would be dragged into the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder investigation. Cremona, who ran BestPlay Gaming Ltd with Fenech,
The trial of Yorgen Fenech, who is charged with complicity in the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia enters its 20th day on Thursday. The prominent businessman is pleading not guilty to the assassination of the journalist in a car bomb in October 2017. Please refresh for constant updates 8.50am Clara Farrugia will be inside the courtroom. The judge and
The trial by jury of businessman Yorgen Fenech enters its 20th day on Thursday, with Johann Cremona expected to resume his testimony before Madam Justice Edwina Grima and the jury. Wednesday's proceedings were largely dominated by the playing of hours of secretly recorded conversations between Cremona and Melvin Theuma, as prosecutor Godwin Cini repeatedly
Yorgen Fenech’s business associate Johann Cremona spent much of yesterday insisting that explosive references to politicians, senior police officers, lawyers, and Fenech himself heard in secretly recorded conversations with Melvin Theuma were nothing more than "a bluff" intended to calm the self-confessed middleman in the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder