Christian Bugeja, 32 of Cospicua, was today found not guilty of attempting to take heroin into the prisons hidden in a pair of flip-flops.

Mr Bugeja had been accused of attempting to take the drug to his brother Alfred, Il-Porporina, in June 2002.

However he pleaded that he had no knowledge of the drug and the bag which contained the flip-flops had been handed to him by his sister-in-law Helen (who is undergoing separate proceedings).

He also insisted that his brother never asked him for drugs.

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