Smashed glass in man’s face
A 26-year-old man was yesterday given a suspended jail term after he smashed a glass in a man’s face in a bar six years ago.
The police were called to Golden Line bar in Żebbuġ on January 10, 2004 after Jonathan Spiteri, then 20 years old, hit Daemer Bartolo with a glass. Mr Bartolo had to have four stitches to the bridge of his nose.
Mr Spiteri claimed that Mr Bartolo had started the fight over the music that was being played in the bar but Mr Bartolo alleged that just as he walked out of the toilet Mr Spiteri approached him and smashed the glass in his face.
Magistrate Jacqueline Pad-ovani said that the evidence produced indicated that Mr Bartolo had tried to calm Mr Spiteri down after he had been involved in a fight with his own friends. She said this did not warrant the aggressiveness with which the accused had acted and neither was he acting in self-defence, as he had claimed.
Taking this into consideration together with the fact that she had to consider him a first-time offender because the prosecution failed to present his police record, she handed down a one-year jail term suspended for three years.
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vincent magro
Feb 3rd 2010, 15:52
Il-gudikanti qedin hemm biex jghamlu gustizzja, u dan li jistenna minnhom il-poplu.
B'gustizzja nifhem li kulhadd jiehu li haqqu, kemm l-agressur u kemm il-vittma li kif nafu m'hux dejjem possibbli. Izda b'decizjonijiet bhall din dawn qed naghtu messagg "fil-fhema tieghi hazin" lil-komunita hemm barra, li wiehed jista jizbalja u jwegga n-nies bla ma jhallas ghal ghamilu "peress li jkun l-ewwel darba li wegga n-nies"
Jien m'hinix kontra l-mahfra - li fil-fhema tieghi ghanda ssir dejjem - imma kontra li wiehed ma jhallasx ghal ghemilu , ghax dan jikreja dizordni fis-socjeta.
Meta min ikun instab hati, johrog il-barra b'sentenza sospiza, il-gudikant ikun qed jara l-interess ta l-agressur li ghax ma jkunx ghamel reat iehor qabel, ma jehilx il-habs sa kemm ma jaghmilx reat iehor f'perjodu stabbilit. Meta suppost il-gudikant jara l-interess tas-socjeta u jiprotegiha permezz ta sentenza gusta, u qatt ma tista tkun gusta jekk min ghamel hsara ma jhallasx ghaliha bi flus jew habs skont il-kas. Dan il-principju ghandu jinzamm dejjem u li ghandu jkollu fid-deskrizzjoni tieghu il-gudikant,fil-fehema tieghi, hu li jistabbilixxi l-piena gusta ghax il-gustizzja mhux biss trid issir, imma trid tidher ukoll li qieghda ssir, ghax inkella fejnu d-deterrent biex wiehed ma jaghmilx reat l-ewwel darba?