Witnesses who testified in the case of a bus driver acquitted of running over a woman are being investigated for perjury, the police have confirmed. The investigation was launched after the woman’s husband, Publius Said, released a declaration to the police last month.

Mr Said had filed a police report a year ago over the incident, which took place five years earlier.

But he has now taken the matter a step further and issued a 15-page declaration to police mapping out his suspicions: that several witnesses may have misled the court in order to acquit the driver.

In the declaration,  he is insisting that these testimonies resulted in the court ruling that his wife caused the accident by running into the road without keeping a proper lookout.

In December 2013, bus driver Massimo Bonello was cleared of driving negligently and dangerously and seriously injuring Mr Said’s Ukrainian wife, Inna, in St Paul’s Bay on December 2, 2008. He was fined €150 for driving without a licence since he had not renewed it.

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