VALLETTA, Malta — Two males have been sentenced to life in jail on Tuesday after being convicted of complicity within the homicide of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
Jamie Vella and Robert Agius have been accused of supplying the bomb that killed Caruana Galizia. Each have been discovered responsible of the costs final week and on Tuesday got the utmost sentence of life in jail.
Caruana Galizia, 53, was murdered on Oct. 16, 2017, by a automotive bomb that was detonated whereas she was driving close to her dwelling.
The journalist had written extensively about suspected corruption in political and enterprise circles in Malta. Her homicide shocked Europe and triggered offended protests in Malta. On the time of her demise, she was going through greater than 40 libel fits.
The six-week trial additionally involved the separate homicide of a lawyer, Carmel Chircop, who was shot and killed in 2015. Two different males, George Degiorgio and Adrian Agius, have been convicted and sentenced to life in jail for that homicide on Thursday.
George Degiorgio and his brother Alfred Degiorgio each pleaded responsible in 2022 to finishing up the homicide of Caruana Galizia. They have been every sentenced to 40 years in jail.
A 3rd man, Vincent Muscat, pleaded responsible in 2021 for his position within the Caruana Galizia homicide, and was sentenced to fifteen years in jail. He testified within the latest jury trial after being granted a presidential pardon for his position within the Chircop homicide on the situation he inform the entire fact.
Yorgen Fenech, a distinguished Maltese businessman, is presently out of jail on bail awaiting trial on costs of alleged complicity within the Caruana Galizia homicide.