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Ta’ Maksar brothers Robert and Adrian Agius together with their associate Jamie Vella have filed an application in Malta’s highest courts, arguing t
Murder suspect Adrian Agius is claiming that his rights were breached by recent court decisions citing public disorder as a primary ground for denying him bail.
Ta’ Maksar brother Adrian Agius was denied bail by a court on Tuesday, one day after his lawyer argued that all civilian witnesses had testified in the case against his client. Agius stands accused of ordering the murder of lawyer Carmel Chircop, who was found gunned down in a Birkirkara garage in October 2015. He is pleading not guilty. In a decision delivered on Tuesday, Magistrate Caroline Farrugia Frendo refused Agius’ bail application, saying that while the accused was presumed innocent, bail was not an automatic right. While civilian witnesses had testified in the case, a magi...
Ta’ Maksar brother Adrian Agius is seeking bail, with his lawyer arguing that all civilian witnesses in the case against him have testified and that there exist no reason for his client to continue to be held in police custody. Agius stands accused of commissioning the 2015 murder of lawyer Carmel Chircop, which prosecutors say was carried out by Agius’ associates Jamie Vella, George Degiorgio and Vince Muscat. Appearing in court on Monday morning, Agius’ lawyer Alfred Abela argued that arguments against granting Agius bail were now non-existent. Abela noted that the prosecution h...
Updated 12.30pm A senior police officer had overheard lawyer Carmel Chircop in a heated conversation on his mobile days before he was gunned down, a court heard on Tuesday. Emanuel Scicluna, a sergeant major stationed at the Birkirkara police station at the time of Chircop’s murder in 2015, testified about his chance encounter with the lawyer while on his way to a shopping mall in Sliema on a Saturday morning. Scicluna knew Chircop by sight since the lawyer was the president of a band club in the town where the officer spent his working days. On that off-day, Scicluna was out shopping whe...