Antonino Enrico Galvagno a resident of Mosta, today admitted in court to having slightly injured a police constable and resisted arrest in an incident in Naxxar early yesterday.

The accused, 19, who is a construction worker, told the court that he did not need a lawyer and would admit to the charges.

Police Inspector Elton Taliana said the accused needed to realise the gravity of the charges. The incident, he said, involved a fight. The police intervened and matters escalated. Officers had to use pepper spray to calm down the situation. All this, he said, occurred during the village feast when everyone was supposed to have been having fun.

The inspector said that the fact that the accused was drunk was no justification for his actions, although he had realised what he had done wrong and, in his statement, had apologised. The inspector recommended a suspended jail term.

The court condemned the accused to a one-year jail term suspended for two years and fined him €23.