The trial by jury of Yorgen Fenech continues today with the testimony of police inspector Kurt Zahra. Fenech has pleaded not guilty to two principal charges: complicity in the wilful homicide of Daphne Caruana Galizia and criminal association to commit the murder. Caruana Galizia, a columnist with The Malta Independent , was killed in a car bomb on
The trial of Yorgen Fenech is set to continue following the conclusion of Melvin Theuma's lengthy testimony, which ended with the defence accusing the self-confessed murder middleman of lying to protect Keith Schembri and tailoring his evidence to secure a presidential pardon. Theuma finally stepped down from the witness stand on Saturday after days
Melvin Theuma completed a week of testimony in the Yorgen Fenech murder trial on Friday, with the defence spending much of the final day challenging his credibility, his account of his meetings at Castille and his claim that he acted on Fenech's instructions to arrange the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. Theuma, the self-confessed middleman,
Melvin Theuma delivered some of the strongest remarks of his testimony so far on Saturday, telling jurors that Yorgen Fenech “made me kill Daphne Caruana Galizia” as defence lawyers continued to challenge him during cross-examination. Proceedings resumed before Madam Justice Edwina Grima, with defence lawyer Giannella de Marco questioning Theuma on
The Yorgen Fenech trial is set to resume on Saturday afternoon with the testimony of Melvin Theuma. The media was barred from live reporting on Friday and Saturday morning for security reasons, as jurors witnesses, court employees, and Yorgen Fenech visited some of the sites tied to the murder. The ban has now been lifted. Fenech has pleaded not guilty
For two days, the jury in the trial of Yorgen Fenech was taken to a series of locations central to the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, in a tightly controlled operation carried out under heavy police escort and strict reporting restrictions. The court-ordered visits saw jurors, prosecutors, defence lawyers, Yorgen Fenech, star witness
After seven weeks of hearing testimony about the people, places and events surrounding the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, the jurors in the Yorgen Fenech trial by jury on Friday and Saturday saw the case move from the courtroom into the real-world locations at its centre, travelling in a heavily guarded convoy from the Marsa potato shed to Bidnija,