Missing statement gets man off cocaine charge
A man sentenced to six months in jail by the court of Magistrates has been acquitted on appeal, after the judge observed that an important police statement was absent from the acts of the case
30 April 2021, 4:24pm
by Matthew Agius
A man sentenced to six months in jail by the court of Magistrates has been acquitted of possession and trafficking of a gram of cocaine on appeal, after the judge observed that an important police statement was absent from the acts of the case.
The case dates back to a party at Gianpula on 28 June 2008 where the police arrested Letizia and Louise Sultana in the car park as they were about to consume cocaine. Sultana had told the police that the drug had been given to her by her boyfriend Daniel Gatt, 18 at the time.