Bail revoked, personal guarantee forfeited

One of 19 people charged with drug conspiracy yesterday had his bail revoked and lost a personal guarantee of Lm5,000 for breaching bail conditions.

Magistrate Consuelo Scerri Herrera ordered the arrest of Daniel Victor Bonnici, 26, after hearing police explain that when they went to check on Bonnici at his Burmarrad residence on December 11, 2003, at 2.45 a.m. - he was not home.

Bonnici's bail conditions laid down that he had to be home by 10 p.m. and could not leave his home before 6 a.m.

The ruling was given during the compilation of evidence against John Camilleri, 34, of Mqabba, his brother Emanue, 37, better known as il-Bully, Emanuel Camilleri's girlfriend Trudy Testa, 27, of Mqabba, and his former girlfriend and champion bowler Sue Abela, 36, of Sliema, Mario Camilleri, 40, l-Imniehru, his wife Mona, 30, of Valletta and his son Pierre, 20, Charles Muscat, 35, il-Pips, his wife Yvette, 38, of l-Iklin and Alfred Bugeja, 44, il-Porporina and his brother Albert, 30, of Gzira, Anthony Gatt, 49, and his girlfriend Carmen Armeni, 41, of Mqabba and Armeni's sister Sylvana Bugeja, 29, of Gharghur, Romeo Bone, 26, of Floriana, Isaac Chetcuti, 25, of Sliema, Noel Borg, 29, of Bahar ic-Caghaq, Juma Said Karfoosh, 35, of Hamrun and Bonnici.

They are all charged with conspiring to traffic in cocaine and cannabis and to commit a crime on and before May 30, 2002.

The case continues.