The case against Ta’ Maksar brothers Adrian and Robert Agius and two of their associates refocuses on their alleged role in the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia when the case resumes on Wednesday morning.
Prosecutors will summon witnesses to that 2017 murder, one day after a court heard from an eyewitness in the 2015 murder of lawyer Carmel Chircop.
The two Agius brothers, Jamie Vella and George Degiorgio face charges related to both those murders.
Robert Agius and Vella stand accused of supplying the bomb used to blow up Caruana Galizia. Degiorgio is being charged in separate proceedings with having committed that murder together with two others.
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.
One of the hitmen in the assassination of the journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia told a magistrate in February 2021, that a co-conspirator had complained they had failed to record conversations with former Labour minister Chris Cardona.
Vincent Muscat ‘il-Koħħu’, who pleaded guilty to his part in the car bomb that killed Caruana Galizia in 2017 for a 15-year sentence, told a magistrate the Degiorgio brothers name-dropped Cardona in a conversation they had while waiting to be escorted into the courtroom for the compilation of evidence against him.
George and Alfred Degiorgio were last week denied a pardon for their part in the crime, after they claimed they could give direct evidence of a former Labour minister who commissioned the Caruana Galizia murder, as well as an unnamed middleman that has so far faced no charges in relation to the case.