Three police officers to face 'perjury' probe

A magistrate has ordered three police officers to be investigated for perjury in connection with an affidavit they presented over an illegal trapping case. Magistrate Anthony Vella, who was presiding over the Administrative Law Enforcement sitting on Wednesday, ordered the investigation after the police officers confirmed under oath that they had individually prepared the affidavits in connection with the case. However, it turned out that the affidavits were a ‘copy and paste’ job, and even had similar grammatical and spelling mistakes. The case involved Brian Paul Bonello, 49, from Qormi, who was charged with bird trapping during the closed season on March 13 last year in Mtaħleb. Read more in The Sunday Times of Malta.