A 42-year-old man was arraigned before the Gozo courts on Wednesday, accused of the murder of an Egyptian man who was shot twice in January 2018.
Aleksandr Stojanovic, a Serbian national who lives in Safi, pleaded not guilty to having murdered father-of-two Walid Salah Abdel Motaleb Mohammed, who was found dead in a remote field in Għarb, Gozo, on January 22, 2018.
The police said investigators had established that the accused was with the victim just hours before.
The victim was found lying on the ground with two shotgun wounds, one on the left side of the neck and the other in the centre of his chest.
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A neighbour of Carmel Chircop has described how he found the lawyer lying dead in his garage doorway with two gun shots in his body.
Augustine Grixti said that Chircop s hand was cold to the touch but still moveable.
Grixti was testifying in the the compilation of evidence against four men linked to the murders of Chircop in October 8, 2015 and journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia two years later.
Adrian Agius is accused of commissioning Chircop s murder while George Degiorgio and Jamie Vella are charged with carrying out the hit. They deny the charges.
The witness was passing by the garage complex on John Borg Street, Birkirkara at around 6.55am when he met a friend, who told him they had heard four shots.
An associate of Yorgen Fenech knew everything from A to Z about Daphne Caruana Galizia s assassination, the murder middleman testified on Thursday.
Johann Cremona, who has not been charged in connection with the crime, was described as Yorgen s postman by Melvin Theuma.
Melvin Theuma was testifying in the compilation of evidence against Robert Agius, Adrian Agius, Jamie Vella and George Degiorgio who are accused of supplying the device that was detonated by remote control on October 16, 2017 to kill Caruana Galizia.
The group also face charges of killing lawyer Carmel Chircop in 2015. He knew everything, from A to Z. He knew that Yorgen was the mastermind, that the bomb was planted by three hitmen and that I was the messenger. He knew it all, Theuma told the court during an animated and often angry testimony.
A suspected gun dealer was caught in the act when undercover police called him to set up an appointment for a sale, a court heard on Wednesday
Police Superintendent Keith Arnaud testified that following a tip-off, he had called Nigel John Abela, 46, from Dingli to express interest in weapons he was selling.
He fixed an appointment to meet the man close to the Mosta cemetery on September 28, 2009. Upon his arrival, he identified himself as a police officer and searched Abela s vehicle, finding an M1 Garande rifle that was inside a camouflage case. The rifle was stolen from a residence in Ħamrun in July 2007.
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