Alternattiva Demokratika has written to the President, asking her to intervene so that Daniel Holmes may serve the remainder of his prison sentence in his native Wales.

Party chairman Arnold Cassolla wrote that without going into the merits of the case, it should be made possible for Mr Holmes to see his children more often, especially as his wife has just had a baby.

He therefore asked the President to consider proposing that Mr Holmes serve the rest of his prison term in Wales, in order to be near his family.

Mr Holmes is serving a 10-year-jail sentence for growing cannabis.

Last month he got to meet his second daughter, who was conceived during a rare private meeting with his wife at Corradino prisons last year.

“She's already 90 days old, I love her, and she's very beautiful,” he told the UK’s Channel 5 programme Prison Brides, which featured his family's plight at the end of February.

Three years into his sentence, given in 2009, the couple decided to tie the knot and exchanged vows during a ceremony at Corradino.

Corradino Prison allows conjugal visits for married couples and it was during such a visit that his wife Marzena became pregnant with their second daughter.

But Mr Holmes could not meet his child until she was three months old, when Marzena took the child Blossom to visit her father for the first time.

Mr Holmes was 28 when he was arrested in 2006 at his Gozo flat, where he was growing cannabis plants that he insisted were for his personal use.

The police said he was found with just over a kilogram of dried cannabis and 0.24 grams of cannabis resin, with a total value of €11,600.

He was charged and convicted of the importation, cultivation, possession and sale of cannabis.

In 2011, he was sentenced to 10-and-a-half years in prison and fined €23,000.