False accusation charge

A prison inmate was charged with falsely accusing a police inspector of ill-treating him in jail last year. Joseph Vella, 55, pleaded not guilty to making the false accusation against Inspector Abraham Zammit when he knew him to be innocent on May 7,...

A prison inmate was charged with falsely accusing a police inspector of ill-treating him in jail last year.

Joseph Vella, 55, pleaded not guilty to making the false accusation against Inspector Abraham Zammit when he knew him to be innocent on May 7, 2005.

Magistrate Jacqueline Padovani Grima presided over the case.

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