The trial by jury of Yorgen Fenech continued on Thursday with former family doctor Adrian Vella recounting the businessman's cocaine addiction and deteriorating mental state, and the events leading up to his arrest, while telling jurors he heard Fenech say: "If I go down, they'll all go down with me." Vella told jurors that he heard Fenech make the
Adrian Vella, the longtime doctor and confidant of both Yorgen Fenech and Keith Schembri, told jurors on Thursday that he was in daily contact with the former prime minister’s chief of staff in the days leading up to the businessman’s arrest, insisting that their close relationship explains why Schembri was constantly calling him. Facing a lengthy
Former chief of staff Keith Schembri’s emphatic denial that he ever passed documents to Yorgen Fenech, while under arrest, came under direct challenge on Thursday after the businessman’s longtime doctor, Adrian Vella, told jurors that Schembri personally instructed him to collect four documents from his home and deliver them to the accused. The testimony
The jury in Yorgen Fenech’s trial today heard testimony from his former personal doctor, Dr Adrian Vella, who told the court that Fenech once declared: “If I go down… they’ll all come down with me.” Vella, who said he had known Fenech for 32 years and described their relationship as being “practically family”, was giving evidence about events that
