Yorgen Fenech is claiming that his defence is being “irremediably prejudiced” by police authorities’ resistance to making available “all material” crucial to proving his innocence, persistently ignoring his lawyers’ call for full disclosure. Lawyers for the businessman currently awaiting trial for alleged complicity in the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, filed a judicial protest against the Police Commissioner, renewing calls for such disclosure and holding him responsible for allegedly breaching Fenech’s right to a fair hearing. Following his arrest in November 2019, during a ten-day span of interrogations, Fenech had insisted that police had more recordings, other than the four made available to him at that stage. He insisted that those recordings would corroborate his version and prove what he has claimed all along, namely that he never “wanted, sought, ordered or paid for the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia.” Later events had proved that Fenech was right, said his lawyers, making reference to “over 200 recordings” which police had in hand at the time of Fenech’s interrogations. Their request for full disclosure of material evidence “crucial” to Fenech’s defence,...
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