Judge Rules Presidential Pardon Does Not Validate Middleman's Testimony in Malta Trial

Judge: Theuma’s pardon does not make his testimony automatically true

The presidential pardon granted to murder middleman Melvin Theuma by disgraced former prime minister Joseph Muscat does not automatically mean he told the truth, Judge Edwina Grima told jurors as she began summing up the evidence in Yorgen Fenech’s trial. The judge warned jurors to exercise particular caution when assessing evidence given by an accomplice … Continued

By The Shift Team