Toni Abela defends his 'discretion'

Toni Abela, Labour’s deputy leader for party affairs, yesterday defended his decision not to inform the police about reports of drug trafficking at a Labour Party club in 2010. Interviewed by The Times after a second audio recording emerged yesterday, he said that he abhors drugs and refuses to defend alleged drug traffickers. He said he did not report the case because he feared he would put the “honest” committee members at risk. In the recording which emerged yesterday, Dr Abela is heard talking about sacking a person from a party club following reports of someone cutting up a “white block” in the kitchen. Read full interview in The Times.