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
For two days, Malta's most closely watched criminal trials quietly moved out of the courtroom and onto the streets, under heavy police guard and a court-imposed veil of secrecy. On Friday and Saturday, Jurors in the Yorgen Fenech trial were taken to some of the locations at the heart of Daphne Caruana Galizia's murder case, with details of their movements
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,
It was a big week in the trial of Yorgen Fenech, as self-confessed middleman and star witness Melvin Theuma took the stand and insisted, throughout an entire week of testimonies, that Fenech was the only mastermind he knew. But Fenech's defence lawyers would not buy it. Why, they asked, had Theuma stopped mentioning Keith Schembri? He had named Schembri
A dramatic confrontation between pardoned middleman Melvin Theuma and convicted murderer George Degiorgio brought Thursday’s sitting in the trial of Yorgen Fenech to an explosive end, with the two men trading accusations of lying over the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Degiorgio, who is serving a 40-year prison sentence after admitting
A furious confrontation erupted between convicted hitman George Degiorgio and self-confessed murder middleman Melvin Theuma during Yorgen Fenech's trial by jury on Thursday, with Degiorgio branding Theuma "the biggest liar" before security officers intervened as the pair stood up, shouted at each other and appeared close to physically confronting one