A court of appeal has confirmed that statements released by a man suspected of shooting Baron Francis Sant Cassia back in 1988 are not to be produced in evidence at the murder trial. Judgement was delivered on Wednesday upon appeal by the Attorney General in proceedings against Carmel Camilleri, a 66-year-old father of five who was arraigned in 2006 as the suspect who allegedly shot Sant Cassia just outside his Mġarr residence on October 27, 1988. Although the murder went unresolved for years, investigators working on a separate case in 2004 had finally targeted Camilleri as the suspected hitman, allegedly promised a sum of money by a third party to carry out the killing. The baron was fatally shot in the head the minute he stepped out of his residence. Upon arraignment eight years later, Camilleri pleaded not guilty to wilful homicide, unlawful possession of a weapon and firing that weapon in an inhabited area. A court-appointed psychiatrist reported that although the accused was not mentally unstable, he had a “rather low IQ” and found it difficult to understand and express himself. The man’s lawyers subsequently challenged the statements he had released to police. Last...