A 64-year-old man has been sentenced to a two-year jail term suspended for four years after he was found guilty of defiling two girls, aged 11 and 12, in April, 2007.

The girls saw Emanuele Bonnici, of Zejtun, masturbating on a rocky beach near the Jerma Palace Hotel. He claimed that he had an enlarged prostate and needed to urinate and denied doing anything else.

Magistrate Audrey Demicoli found the man guilty. She ordered that his name be added to the sex offenders register.

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