The trial of former Chief Justice Noel Arrigo, accused of having accepted a bribe to reduce the sentence of a convicted drug trafficker on appeal, finally gets under way today: seven years after his arrest had provoked a serious judicial crisis in 2002.
The delay was in part due to the fact that a key witness in the case, Anthony Grech Sant, still faced pending charges in connection with the same bribery case, which also involved Mario Camilleri aka ‘L-Imniehru’, his son Pierre and Joseph Zammit aka ‘Is-Sei’.
A second judge who faced the same charges, Patrick Vella, pleaded guilty and has already served his two-year sentence in full.
Noel Arrigo has asked for his trial to be heard by a judge in the absence of a jury. He is represented by legal counsel Dr Joseph Giglio.
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