Update 3 - PN reacts as Cyrus Engerer gets suspended jail term, court points to EP candidate's threats to victim

Cyrus Engerer, a Labour candidate for the European Parliament elections, has been sentenced to a two-year jail term suspended for two years. The decision was handed down by Mr Justice Michael Mallia in a 17-page appeals court judgment. Mr Engerer had been accused of keeping and/or circulating pornography and computer misuse. He was also accused of copying data vilifying a man. The first court had acquitted Mr Engerer but the decision was overturned on appeal. The court said it was satisfied that the prosecution had proven that Mr Engerer was the author and mastermind of the dissemination of compromising pictures on the internet to the detriment of his victim. THREATS In its judgement, the court said it could not ignore Mr Engerer's threats to the victim to stop the case to prevent other shameful things from being uncovered. He implemented the threat at the end of the compilation of evidence when the defence exhibited a pen drive which allegedly included footage about the victim gathered by Mr Engerer. Rightly so, the prosecution objected to this but the court did not give any directive and the envelope containing the pen drive remained in the acts of the proceedings. This...