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A court-appointed psychiatrist has assessed Nathalie Williams and pronounced her as ‘fit to testify’ in the proceedings against her former husband who allegedly held her captive in an underground chamber beneath Fort Ricasoli last October. Roddy WilliamsWoman allegedly held captive by former husband 'fit to testify'
A court-appointed psychiatrist has assessed Nathalie Williams and pronounced her as ‘fit to testify’ in the proceedings against her former husband who allegedly held her captive in an underground chamber beneath Fort Ricasoli last October. Roddy Williams, the 37-year old Seychelles-born man, has been held behind bars under preventive arrest ever since, with a primary ground for the denial of bail being the fact that the victim of the alleged ordeal was still to testify. In the course of the compilation of evidence by magistrate Claire Stafrace Zammit, the prosecution had first presented a medical certificate by general practitioner Stephen Spiteri declaring that the woman was not fit to take the witness stand. When this certificate was declared insufficient by the court, another certificate by David Cassar, a psychiatrist chosen by the victim, was produced in court, with the specialist himself later confirming under oath that the patient was ‘currently unfit to testify’. READ: Woman found in cave was thrown down stairs, raped, threatened, court told Following this stage of the ongoing court saga, the defence team had requested the Criminal Court to appoint one or more... Read more