MALTA
Malta Today
Labour’s spokespersons for justice and home affairs have blamed the lack of investment in beefing up the office of the Attorney General for a court decision Wednesday that turned down the prosecutor’s request to charge a priest with child rape.
The court of criminal appeal threw out the Attorney General’s request to have defrocked priest Godwin Scerri – jailed for five years for sexually abusing minors in his care – found guilty of rape, after a technical error was discovered in the original charge sheet, showing the crime happening in a place when it actually had happened in another.
The court upheld the objections raised by defence counsel Giannella de Marco who argued, through case law, that the prosecution had “ample time” to correct its own mistake on the charge sheet, but did not.
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