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In the last year, three shocking cases of alleged abduction reached the courts, however, the crime still remains rare in Malta.
Three suspects were recently charged after they allegedly bundled a man into a car, tied him to a tree in a woodland and then held him against his will in a Sliema hotel in an attempt to extort money from him.
Their plan was foiled when they were preparing to move him to another location and were caught after the victim managed to escape and call for help.
Last November, a terrorised kidnapped woman was found inside a Buġibba apartment and her alleged abductors were arraigned. The 50-year-old was snatched from her Msida home and a ransom was demanded from her son, who was told he would not see his mother again unless he paid up.
During his lengthy testimony, Borg recalled how his involvement in the property market had brought him in touch with Pio Camilleri, a member of a political clique who allegedly forced him to relinquish plots of land in exchange for permits against his will.
His reluctance to part with property that was rightfully his had been met with bomb threats and even physical violence, Borg told the court, recounting one episode when Camilleri had allegedly stormed into his office, overturned his desk, and threatened, “unless you sign the deed agreed with Balzan, I’ll blow up your home”.
His family had, indeed, been the victim of a bomb attack, an emotional Borg explained.
The gruesome discovery had happened by chance when a man, drawing water from a well to wash his car, had stumbled across the suspicious remains after his bucket slipped down into the well.
Once the water, eight to 10 feet deep, had been drained, four plastic bags came to light, three of which were partly hidden under a mound of stones.
The first bag contained a badly fractured human skull, fragmented into 28 pieces, along with a sledgehammer.
The other bags revealed other human bones, some attached to ‘soap-like’ tissue.
A first autopsy had proved inconclusive, and local experts had consulted a well-known English pathologist, Ian West, who subsequently participated in a second autopsy on November 20.
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