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Supermarket butcher convicted of stealing thousands of euros worth of meat An employee at a supermarket butcher’s shop has been handed a suspended sentence after he was found guilty of stealing thousands of euros worth of meat 13 May 2021, 11:01am by Matthew Agius An employee at a supermarket butcher’s shop has been handed a suspended sentence after he was found guilty of stealing thousands of euros worth of meat. Mark Anthony Borg, 46, from Ta’ Xbiex, was sentenced to 18 months in prison, suspended for three years after he was convicted of the theft. Magistrate Josette Demicoli had h...

A butcher’s assistant who would drop off meat products at his own home midway through a delivery run was given a suspended sentence after the theft was proven on three occasions. Mark Anthony Borg was targeted by criminal prosecution over allegations dating back to 2012 when suspected foul play surfaced following a trading profit and loss exercise undertaken by the store accountant.  Some meat stocks were unaccounted for and the inconsistency appeared to be quite considerable.  Meat products would be ferried from one store at Santa Venera to another at St Julian’s by the assistant who r...

The supremacy of our Constitution is the keystone upon which the entire Constitutional structure rests. Our courts are empowered to strike down laws which are found to be inconsistent with the Constitution and in particular those laws which breach the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual set forth in our Constitution. The European Court of Human Rights and the Constitutional Court of Malta have in a number of cases ruled that the infliction of an administrative penalty in a case where it retained its criminal character could only be imposed by an independent and impartial court. ...

Nationalist Party leader Bernard Grech on Wednesday called on the government to withdraw the bill amending the Interpretation Act, saying the proposed amendment will take away the fundamental rights of the Maltese and Gozitans.  “The Nationalist Party will continue working to ensure that the rights of the Maltese and Gozitans are protected. We will not stand for such an amendment and call for the Bill to be scrapped immediately.” Grech was speaking in Parliament during the debate on the Bill to amend the Interpretation Act.  The Nationalist Party called for the bill to be dropped after ...

The Nationalist Party has urged the government to drop a Bill which, it warned, will breach the Constitution by allowing high administrative fines to be imposed