Former chief justice Vincent DeGaetano has been awarded almost €12,000 in compensation for damage to items in his garage in Attard, which was flooded with rainwater from a public garden across the road.

A magistrate ruled that the contractor and the Attard local council were responsible for the damage when rainwater flooded his property during a bad storm in September 2010.

The water came from a public garden across the road where the local council was carrying out an embellishment project through contractors Rite-Mix (Gatt Bros) Limited.

The work included the construction of two reservoirs. However, during excavation, punic tombs were discovered and Mepa halted the work.

On September 28, a bad storm hit Malta and rainwater from the site flooded the garage of Dr De Gaetano’s property with some 10 inches of rainwater, causing damage to the property and items in the garage which were of sentimental value.

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