MALTA
Malta Today
Jurgen Balzan
The court of criminal appeal has this morning thrown out a request by the Attorney General to have Godwin Scerri – jailed for five years for abusing boys – be also found guilty of rape, after it a technical error was discovered in the original charge sheet which showed a crime happening in a place when in actual fact it 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.
Explaining his decision not to uphold the prosecution’s request, Judge David Scicluna, said the mistake was evident early in the court proceedings and argued that the prosecution had enough time to correct it, but had failed to do so.
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