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Woman denies blackmail of ‘sex-pest’ greengrocer

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The woman claimed the greengrocer would leave vegetables at her home in the hope of having a relationship with her.

A Żabbar housewife yesterday denied blackmailing a greengrocer by threatening to expose pictures of him half naked in her house. The 41-year-old woman, who cannot be named by court order, is being accused of blackmail together with her 21-year-old daughter and her sister, 42. She said that the vegetable hawker was sexually obsessed with her and would follow her everywhere and leave items, such as vegetables, for her at home in the hope of having a relationship with her. Although she did initially tell the police that, together with her sister and daughter, they managed to get him into her house and then took pictures of him as he undressed to blackmail him, that was all a lie, she said in court. The woman said that what she had told the police in her statement was a concoction she came up with together with her daughter while they were waiting to be questioned. When asked by her lawyer, Mich-ael Sciriha, whether her daughter had an argument with the greengrocer, she admitted she did but only because her daughter told him to leave her mother alone. The woman said that the greengrocer had made her life hell and they had suffered ever since the case began in 2009 because all the...

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