A judge threw out a request by the Attorney General to revoke bail granted to a man accused of shooting dead his former partner.

Kenneth Gafà, 39, of Marsa, was last month granted bail after a previous eight requests had been turned down. Mr Justice David Scicluna rejected an application by the Attorney General to hold Gafà in preventative custody again.

He also turned down a request by the defence team to reduce the €15,000 deposit and €25,000 personal guarantee imposed by the court when granting bail.

He also banned Gafà from going to Rabat where witnesses and relatives of the victim lived.

He had been in custody since December 2010 after he was accused of the murder of Christine Sammut who was shot in the neck and chest as she sat in the driver’s seat of a van in Żebbiegħ.

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