Yorgen Fenech’s mobile chat with his uncle on the eve of his arrest was the focus of a court hearing in libel proceedings concerning a former Times of Malta journalist.
Snippets of that phone conversation were read out in open court by the lead investigator in the Daphne Caruana Galizia assassination probe.
Superintendent Keith Arnaud was summoned to testify in a set of mutual libel suits filed by former reporter Ivan Camilleri and Malta Today managing director Saviour Balzan.
A reference to a Times of Malta journalist had been made by Arnaud back in December 2019 when testifying in the ongoing murder compilation against the businessman, accused as an accomplice in the Caruana Galizia assassination.