A close friend of state witness Melvin Theuma told jurors on Saturday that Theuma had claimed Yorgen Fenech gave him €150,000 to pay the Degiorgio brothers for the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder, while also describing how the middleman secretly recorded conversations with the businessman because he feared he would eventually be left to shoulder responsibility
Edwin Brincat, the longtime friend and mentor of pardoned middleman Melvin Theuma, told jurors on Saturday how disgraced former police commissioner Lawrence Cutajar entered the picture after Theuma had begun panicking about secret recordings linking Yorgen Fenech to Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder. Brincat, known as il-Ġojja, was testifying in Fenech’s
The Yorgen Fenech murder trial entered its 16th day with testimony from Edgar Brincat, known as “il-Ġojja,” a close friend of murder middleman Melvin Theuma who was arrested alongside him in November 2019. Who is Il-Ġojja? Brincat described himself to the court as a car dealer who also ran a restaurant in Birżebbuġa and worked as a bookmaker. He told
The trial of Yorgen Fenech for complicity in the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia enters its 16th day on Saturday, when a former police commissioner is expected to testify. Former commissioner Lawrence Cutajar and his friend Edwin Brincat il-Ġojja will both be called to testify on Saturday, Judge Edwina Grima indicated at the end of Friday's court
Former police commissioner Lawrence Cutajar is set to take the stand today in the trial by jury of Yorgen Fenech, a businessman who 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
The jury trial of businessman Yorgen Fenech, accused of masterminding the 2017 assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, has now entered its third week. In just fifteen sittings, jurors have heard about secretly recorded confessions, forensic reconstructions of a car bomb, testimonies from the convicted hitman, and courtroom outbursts that
A Europol explosives expert yesterday detailed the devastating force of the bomb that killed journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, while other witnesses described a system of cash payments allegedly made to the families of the convicted hitmen, and bank officials testified about financial records involving middleman Melvin Theuma. Fenech, 44, has pleaded
An early end to Friday’s hearing in the Yorgen Fenech murder trial saw witness testimonies wrap up by around 3.30 pm, after the prosecution struggled to summon six witnesses who were not available on short notice. Madam Justice Edwina Grima was visibly displeased when the court was informed that no further witnesses were available, warning the state’s
Two witnesses testifying in the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder trial on Friday morning offered a glimpse into the way money, favours and instructions appear to move through Malta’s criminal underworld: through trusted intermediaries, deliberate silence, and a carefully maintained lack of curiosity. Lawrence Pace, known as il-Lolly , told jurors that
The 15th day of Yorgen Fenech’s trial by jury is underway, with the prosecution this morning calling witnesses who described their role in passing cash to the families of the three men accused of carrying out Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder. Lawrence Pace, known as il-Lolly , was called in to testify. He told jurors he knew brothers George and Alfred
