Lawyers for Daphne Caruana Galizia murder suspect Alfred Degiorgio have thrown yet another spoke in prosecutors’ wheels, objecting to the judge who dismissed attempts to block FBI officials from testifying.

Mr Degiorgio’s lawyer William Cuschieri had sought to block FBI agents from testifying on the grounds that they had conducted their work alongside court-appointed IT expert Martin Bajada.

Dr Bajada had been found guilty of fraud in a British court in the 1990s.

Judge Lorraine Schembri Orland last week threw out Dr Chetcuti’s request, saying it was “vexatious and frivolous” and that it had “nothing to do with the context of the case”.

She furthermore said the request by Mr Degiorgio’s lawyer was “so stretched that it lacked the expected level of seriousness expected in such procedures” – a statement which Dr Cuschieri slammed as “damning” in his request for the judge to recuse herself.

“The exponents cannot understand how, with such damning words, the court can ever pronounce itself serenely, dispassionately, independently and impartially on the case,” Dr Cuschieri wrote, in a request which also argued that the court had brushed aside arguments linking the FBI agents to Mr Bajada as “conjecture” while also emphasizing that the agents were nominated “individually and directly” by Mr Bajada.

This is the latest in a series of objections raised by Mr Degiorgio’s lawyer. Aside from objecting to FBI agents from testifying, Dr Cuschieri has also filed applications seeking to have Dr Bajada kicked off the case and another arguing that his client is being denied a fair trial due to police’s inability to obtain the laptop Ms Caruana Galizia was using when she was assassinated.