An argument between a couple triggered a fight between two women which escalated when one of them hit the other with a glass bottle, a court heard on Tuesday. The incident began on Saturday inside an apartment block at Tarxien, where 36-year-old Tiziana Attard lived, when a heated argument broke out. When a neighbour intervened, the situation descended into a full-scale fight between the two women and ended with Attard’s neighbour filing a police report, claiming that she was hit with a glass bottle. The suspected aggressor was tracked down by police when she turned up at the police station to sign a bail book in connection with separate charges. Since it was rather late in the day, she was taken into custody. She was later interrogated but opted for her right to silence, explained prosecuting Inspector Paul Camilleri. Recently, the woman had missed out on signing the bail book and had also failed to turn up for a hearing in separate proceedings.It was only later that a medical certificate had been presented to explain her non-attendance. That was why the police had arraigned the woman under arrest over the latest incident, explained the prosecutor. The woman was on Tuesday...
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