A Tunisian woman, 30, was this afternoon given a suspended jail term after she admitted in court to having committed an abortion two weeks ago.

Magistrate Natasha Galea Sciberras heard how Raya Sellami Zammit, who is married to a Maltese man, was six to seven weeks pregnant and wanted to end her pregnancy. So she asked her friend to procure a cocktail of pills to end it because she had been told that it was going to be a stillbirth.

She swallowed some of the pills and ingested others  in a bid to end the pregnancy.

The court jailed Ms Sellami Zammit for two years suspended for four while her friend Soumia Mansour, who provided the drugs, was jailed for 18 months suspended for three years after noting their early guilty plea and their clean police record.

Police inspectors Joseph Busuttil and Spiridione Zammit prosecuted.

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