University students' brawl ends up in court

A brawl between two students over a University project six years ago saw one of them being handed a suspended jail term today.

Gordon Borg, now 33, was found guilty of having seriously injured Ian Coleiro, 24, when they came to blows near the University roundabout in May 2004.

The court was told that the argument flared up when Mr Coleiro would not allow Mr Borg to include his name in a University project which his group was about to submit to their lecturer. He argued that he had not contributed to the project.

Mr Coleiro said Mr Borg had punched him in the head and kicked him after he felt to the ground, causing him multiple fractures. It was pointed out that Mr Borg practised martial arts.

Mr Borg claimed that Mr Coleiro had produced a flick knife and he had therefore defended himself.

The court said it believed the version of the victim because it was more credible, more so because evidence showed that Mr Borg had left his original project group and joined another one shortly before the project work was to be submitted.

The court therefore sentenced Mr Borg to two years imprisonment suspended for four years.