A man who once belonged to a controversial clan of landowners in Baħrija, has been sentenced to three years in jail for the burglary of a restaurant and the assault of the arresting police officers, in 2003
MaltaToday editor Matthew Vella’s three-year research of Maltese and British national archives, and over 1,000 newspaper stories pieces together the history of a particular criminal class: ‘Il-Maltin ta’ Soho’. In this excerpt from Passport To Vice, published by Horizons, a firebomb attack on a Soho club owned by ‘Big Frank’ Mifsud shows the scale of violence meted out between the Maltese denizens of London’s red-light district