Former Chief Justice Noel Arrigo was sent to Mount Carmel Hospital by the doctor at the Corradino Correctional Facility yesterday after he was found to be suffering from a number of conditions.

The acting director of prison said in a statement that the senior houseman on duty at Mount Carmel confirmed the situation and ordered that Dr Arrigo should be kept under constant medical attention.

For this reason, he was temporarily being kept at Mount Carmel’s forensic section until he was certified to be in a stable condition by the hospital’s doctors.

The acting director said that Dr Arrigo was transported in a rented eight-seater van from the Courts to Corradino because one of the the facility’s vans was garaged for repairs.

The van was rented last Wednesday and it has carried about 40 prisoners.

The acting director noted that in previous occasion, Dr Arrigo had always been carried in the facility’s vans.