MALTA
The Times of Malta
Defence lawyers yesterday ripped into the arguments made by the Attorney General during an angry, final plea in the appeal of two priests convicted of child abuse.
Lawyers Giannella de Marco and Joseph Giglio lashed out at what they labelled a “vulgarly” worded appeal, the likes of which they said they had never seen before.
Dr de Marco felt hurt by the fact that the Attorney General had used legal “tricks” against defrocked priests Godwin Scerri, 75, and Carmelo Pulis, 66.
They were sentenced to five years and six years in prison respectively last year after being found guilty of defiling teenage boys about 20 years ago at two homes belonging to the Missionary Society of St Paul.
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