Only five magisterial inquiries on 12 prison deaths since 2018 concluded
Majority of magisterial inquiries into prison deaths remain open • From the five concluded inquiries, four deaths were attributed to natural causes and one was a suicide
12 July 2021, 7:00am
by Kurt Sansone
Only five magisterial inquiries from the 12 initiated since 2018 following the death of prison inmates have been concluded.
Inquiry conclusions seen by MaltaToday show that out of these five deaths, one was a suicide and the other four were attributed to natural causes by pathologists.
Four of the five concluded inquiries concern the deaths that happened at the Corradino Correctional Facility last year. The other concerns a death that happened in 2018.
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AZZOPARDI. On February 9, at Mater Dei Hospital, CARMEN, aged 86, widow of George, of Ħamrun and resident at St Catherine’s Retirement Home, Attard, passed away peacefully comforted by the rites of Holy Church. She leaves to mourn her loss her children Mario and his wife MaryRose, Josianne and her husband John Attard, Elizabeth and her husband Joseph Borg, her grandchildren Erika and her husband John, Katia, James and his fiancée Lena, Nicholas and his wife Mireille, Christopher, Peter, Mark and his fiancée Lara, Julian and David and his fiancée Sara, her grandchild Charlotte, and their respective families, her siblings Mary and her husband John Sant, Stella and her husband Joe Costa, and Joe Farrugia, her in-laws and their respective families, other relatives and friends.