A court expert will be summoned by the end of the month to help explain a torn evidence bag containing a cloned copy of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s mobile phone. The bag was the focus of questions raised by Yorgen Fenech’s lawyers in proceedings leading up to the businessman’s murder trial. Fenech, who stands accused of complicity in Caruana Galizia’s assassination, was back in court on Friday, almost three years since his arraignment in November 2019, where his lawyers are currently thrashing out pre-trial issues. One of the issues flagged by the defence concerned a torn evidence bag which formed part of the records of the case, and which appeared to contain a cloned copy of the murdered journalist’s mobile. During previous sittings, the court had heard how some 85% of the phone data had been digitally reconstructed using advanced data retrieval techniques and a copy was subsequently exhibited in the records of the inquiry. The remains of the original phone, destroyed in the car bomb explosion that killed Caruana Galizia, were retrieved from the wreckage and the SIM card was sent abroad for expert analysis. During Friday’s sitting, lawyer and forensic expert Martin Bajada was...