Man conditionally discharged for assaulting officer
A 32-year-old-man from Ghaxaq was this morning conditionally discharged for two years and fined €240 after he pleaded guilty to violently resisting arrest early on Christmas Day and assaulting a police officer.
Albert Caruana also pleaded guilty to damaging an officer’s glasses, causing €6 worth of damage to a police uniform, disobeying police orders and smoking at Havana in Paceville.
Police Inspector Trevor Micallef said that when the police entered the club, Mr Caruana was smoking. He refused to give them his particulars and became very argumentative so much so that they had to take him to the police van outside because he turned aggressive.
Defence lawyer Franco Debono said this was a minor incident.
Magistrate Giovanni Grixti said this was always how things started off but then they escalated.
Dr Debono vouched for the accused saying he knew the family very well and Mr Caruana was not the type of person to do these things.
Magistrate Grixti noted that in 2007, Mr Caruana had been convicted for breaching public peace.
He warned the man and besides the fine and conditional discharge ordered him to pay €6 to the police force and to compensate the policeman for the damage to his glasses.
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Peter Agius
Dec 27th 2012, 14:07
Havana owner is not liable????? Are the bouncers payed for nothing?
John Holmes
Dec 26th 2012, 22:42
Six Euro for the officers glasses?, Sir if you please where can we residents of Paceville send you the bill, for being victims to ill health, resulting from total apathy, from the Police Station you run, in curbing wines and spirits from playing Amplified Music without any permits?, If you want to contribute, next Sunday, like all Sundays, there will be music from 16.00-03.00, in Wilga Street.
Dennis Agius
Dec 26th 2012, 20:06
good sentence so far....
smoking in a prohibited place ..... the fine is Euro233.
cousing damage worth of Euro6 = E239
so for assulting the Police is Euro1 = Euro240
not obeying police orders are for free.
damageing officer's glasses for free.
Happy Christmas.......
So make an appeal Mr Inspector.
jason cassar
Dec 26th 2012, 19:52
bis serjeta ha jtihom 6 euros ?? hahajjjj
James Dewar
Dec 26th 2012, 17:55
His defence lawyer should be arrested for contempt of court and lying! The accused has a previous conviction for disorder yet he is "not the type". "A minor incident"? Hardly? Courts get a grip if you want to maintain the cooperation ane effectivenes of the Police force. In future an officer may well think, what's the point when bearing in mind such inappropriate sentences.
Franco Farrugia
Dec 26th 2012, 17:38
'A minor accident'? Resisting arrest? Is that the way how we thank our police officers for doing their duty even when most of us are celebrating?
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