As the jury trial of Yorgen Fenech over the assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia entered its ninth day this morning, one thing has remained constant: a photo on the defence’s team table. The photo is none other than the controversial snap of alleged middleman Melvin Theuma and former OPM Chief of Staff Keith Schembri posing
Welcome to our live coverage as the jury trial of Yorgen Fenech over the assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia enters its ninth day. It’s 9am. We’re at the law courts in Valletta, where proceedings before Madam Justice Edwina Grima are just getting underway. The prosecution is expected to continue presenting its case today,
Welcome to our live coverage as the jury trial of Yorgen Fenech over the assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia enters its ninth day. It’s 9am. We’re at the law courts in Valletta, where proceedings before Madam Justice Edwina Grima are just getting underway. The prosecution is expected to continue presenting its case today,
The trial of Yorgen Fenech, the businessman accused of commissioning the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, continues on Friday. Prosecutors say Fenech paid €150,000 to have Caruana Galizia killed through a middleman, who is expected to be the star witness in the case. Five men - the three hitmen and two others who supplied the bomb used
The trial by jury of Yorgen Fenech over the assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia resumes on Friday for its ninth day, as proceedings continue before Madam Justice Edwina Grima. Thursday's sitting featured some of the most harrowing testimony heard so far, as an eyewitness described seeing Caruana Galizia alive after an initial
A jury will continue to hear evidence against Yorgen Fenech, the businessman charged with complicity in the wilful homicide of Daphne Caruana Galizia and with criminal association for the purpose of committing a crime. Caruana Galizia was killed on October 16, 2017 when a bomb placed under the driver’s seat of her car was detonated remotely. The killing
Welcome to our live courtroom updates as the trial of Yorgen Fenech over the murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia continues into its eighth day. We’re reporting from the law courts in Valletta, where proceedings before Madam Justice Edwina Grima are expected to get underway shortly. The court is due to hear further evidence today,
The trial by jury of Yorgen Fenech over the assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia resumes on Thursday for its eighth day. Wednesday saw the end of four days of testimony from lead investigator Keith Arnaud The defence began questioning Arnaud on Monday afternoon, after the Assistant Police Commissioner spent last Friday and
In his fourth and final day of court testimony, lead investigator into the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder Keith Arnaud told jurors that Yorgen Fenech seemed to know that the journalist’s laptop had ended up in Germany. Defence lawyer Giannella De Marco continued her cross-examination of Arnaud on Wednesday morning before the jurors themselves asked
Lead police investigator Keith Arnaud’s cross-examination in the Yorgen Fenech trial drew to a close on Wednesday morning, before jurors put their own questions to the assistant commissioner on Keith Schembri, Melvin Theuma’s phantom job, and the searches carried out after Schembri’s arrest. Arnaud, the head of the police major crimes unit, was testifying
