Pullicino Orlando wants action against magistrate over Caruana Galizia laptop
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Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando has asked the Commission for the Administration of Justice to look into what he said is a «very serious shortcoming» by Magistrate Anthony Vella when he did not insist on obtaining the laptop used by murdered journalisPullicino Orlando wants action against magistrate over Caruana Galizia laptop
Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando has asked the Commission for the Administration of Justice to look into what he said is a «very serious shortcoming» by Magistrate Anthony Vella when he did not insist on obtaining the laptop used by murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia for the murder inquiry. «It is now public knowledge that Magistrate Vella ignored the request of the police officers investigating the assassination of Mrs Daphne Caruana Galizia to take possession of a laptop withheld from them by family members. This may have been a crucial piece of evidence in this case – a case that has shocked our country and the world,» the former MP said in a letter to President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, who heads the commission. Six months have now elapsed since this request was made. «This behaviour may or may not have been influenced by Magistrate Vella’s connections with the aforementioned family,» Dr Pullicino Orlando said. 'An unacceptable and dangerous precedent' The former MP, a frequent target of Ms Caruana Galizia's blogs, and now a chairman of the Malta Chairman for Science and Technology, also wrote on his Facebook page that an unacceptable and dangerous precedent was being... Read more