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The prosecution closed its list of witnesses in the trial against Yorgen Fenech with the testimony of Andrew Caruana Galizia, one of Daphne’s sons. Tomorrow, the defence will begin to present its witnesses. Andrew Caruana Galizia told jurors that his mother had established that Yorgen Fenech was the owner of 17 Black about a year […]
Police who searched Keith Schembri’s Castille office as part of the investigation into Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder left with a single sheet of paper, jurors in Yorgen Fenech’s trial were told – and that the three-hour search of his home yielded nothing. Inspector Kurt Zahra continued his testimony, building on Yorgen Fenech’s police statement shown […]
Yorgen Fenech’s statement to police was played to jurors, in which he admitted passing hundreds of thousands of euros to the middleman Melvin Theuma, but insisted it was extortion and that it was Keith Schembri who orchestrated the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia The recordings cover two days of questioning by Superintendent Kurt Zahra at […]
Inspector Kurt Zahra walked jurors through Yorgen Fenech’s four-hour statement to police, where he admitted being involved and providing money for Daphne’s murder and the hitmen after their arrest – but painted Keith Schembri as the one who ordered the hit and Theuma as the man who organised it. On 29th November, Fenech’s lawyers asked […]
Melvin Theuma faced an intense line of questioning under cross-examination by Yorgen Fenech’s defence team, who raised questions over his credibility, namely over the involvement of Keith Schembri in the murder. This included Theuma naming Schembri as one of the masterminds in a handwritten note to Fenech. Theuma repeatedly said that he had only assumed […]
The prosecution closed its examination of Melvin Theuma on Tuesday afternoon, ending several days in the witness box with a series of chat exchanges in which the self-confessed middleman and Yorgen Fenech discussed arrests and how to throw investigators off their trail. Fenech’s defence team will begin its cross-examination when the trial resumes on Wednesday. […]
Yorgen Fenech privately backed the public campaign to have Daphne Caruana Galizia’s laptops returned from Germany, because their contents would throw suspicion onto everyone she had written about, jurors heard on Monday. “It’s disgraceful that they didn’t bring them,” Fenech is heard saying on a covert recording made by Melvin Theuma, the middleman who arranged […]
Jurors heard Melvin Theuma’s secret recordings for the first time on Saturday, as prosecutors played tapes in which Yorgen Fenech is heard discussing Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder, the money that reached the men who carried it out, and the involvement of Keith Schembri. “When I told him [about the murder], he froze. I told him, […]
Melvin Theuma, the self-confessed middleman who was granted a presidential pardon in exchange for his evidence, took the stand on the 33rd day of the trial against Yorgen Fenech. Over several hours, he set out a timeline of Caruana Galizia’s assassination as he describes it: the conversation in which he says Fenech first raised her […]
Doctor Adrian Vella walked jurors through a series of episodes with Yorgen Fenech before and after his arrest in connection with the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, describing Fenech’s cocaine use, the plans he and his brother made to leave Malta, and the notes Vella carried to him from Keith Schembri. Vella, a doctor from […]
