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In a press statement, former AC Silvio Valletta categorically denied having passed on information to anyone that was not required by him at law.
Matthew Vella 15:38
The next sitting will be questions from the parte civile questions and cross-examination. Muscat is taken out of the courtroom.
Matthew Vella 15:37 Muscat now recalls the December 2017 arrests. “I was supposed to go there, get arrested, and get released two days later since they would have nothing on me. Alfred say they would probably pin it on George. We arrived in Marsa at around 7am. George was already there. I was uncomfortable… suddenly I heard sirens.” Muscat didn’t manage to throw away his phone. “When I spoke to Inspector Kurt Zahra, he asked me if I had a lawyer. I had always used Arthur Azzopardi. I told him, ‘yes, David Gatt’.”
We spied on Daphne till 2am, ‘Maksar’ gang gave us the bomb: Koħħu lays out murder plot
Daphne Caruana Galizia: Vince Muscat lays out murder plot in court, says Degiorgio brothers got help from former Labour minister Chris Cardona and that they knew of arrests three weeks before
11 March 2021, 4:27pm
by Matthew Vella / Matthew Agius
George Degiorgio (left) and Vince Muscat (right)
Vince Muscat ‘il-Koħħu’, the man serving a 15-year prison sentence for his part in the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, has set Malta alight.
In a five-hour testimony, the man who tracked Caruana Galizia’s movements with co-conspirator Alfred Degiorgio before she was murdered by a car bomb on 16 October, 2017, corroborated the events leading up to the execution with excruciating detail.
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A man who has admitted to taking part in the 2017 murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia gave his first detailed account of the plot on Thursday, telling a court how the anti-corruption journalist was tracked and killed.
Vince Muscat was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in February after admitting his involvement in the murder, which shocked Europe, as part of a plea bargain.