Former Enemalta chairman Tancred Tabone had his rights breached when he was forced to testify before a parliamentary committee over his alleged involvement in the oil scandal but this breach was not enough to annul the pending criminal proceedings against him, a judge has ruled.
Tabone failed to convince the court that the testimony before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) had breached his human right to a fair hearing to the extent that the criminal proceedings against him had to be dropped.
Mr Justice Joseph R Micallef, presiding over the First Hall of the Civil Court in its constitutional jurisdiction, said that although the court had found that there had been a violation of Tabone’s fundamental right it did not see as appropriate his request for the annulment and suspension of the proceedings pending before the Magistrates’ Court and his release from those proceedings.
Suspected drug mule administered laxative by police loses human rights claim
Court dismisses inhumane treatment claim by Dutch woman cleared of drug trafficking after made to search for drugs through her own faeces
19 December 2020, 6:09pm
by Matthew Agius
A Constitutional court has dismissed a case filed by a Dutch woman who claimed she was subjected to inhumane and degrading treatment by the police, after she was arrested in 2015 on suspicion of drug trafficking and made to search through her own faeces.
Jennifer Koster told the First Hall of the Civil Court in its Constitutional jurisdiction that she had been arbitrarily arrested and detained after arriving in Malta.