The Home Affairs Minister had to shoulder responsibility for the mistake in the charges brought against a convicted drug trafficker, the Nationalist Party said yesterday.
Andrè Falzon, 21 from San Ġwann was sentenced to three years in jail after pleading guilty to trafficking ecstasy on September 8. However, the date on the charge sheet was given as August 8, prompting his lawyers to file an appeal calling for his acquittal.
The party said that when similar mistakes were made under a PN-led Government, the Labour Party immediately used to request the Home Affairs Minister assume responsibility.
The PN cited the case of a mistake in the charge sheet of a person accused of rape in 2011 and another in which the time the alleged crime had occurred was incorrect.
Now that Labour was in government, it should stick to the same yardstick and assume responsibility, the PN said.