Former police chief Ray Zammit is insisting his order to remove a car from the scene of a shooting incident involving a minister’s driver was misinterpreted by police officers.

He was reacting yesterday to the leaked findings of an internal police disciplinary board that acquitted Inspector Gabriel Micallef of tampering with the scene of the crime in November last year.

Mr Micallef had driven a car with two bullet holes in it onto the police low loader before the on-site magisterial inquiry got under way and before the inspector responsible for the crime scene had yet arrived.

He was on the crime scene because the minister’s driver, Paul Sheehan, who fired the shots, was his sister’s partner.

The report, seen by the Times of Malta, quotes the testimony of a police officer who received the order from Mr Zammit, then acting police commissioner, to call in the low loader and take the car away.

Read more in the Times of Malta.