A 22-year-old from Marsascala angrily stormed out of a courtroom on Wednesday morning after a magistrate denied him permission to speak.

The young man shrugged off police officers and paced out of Magistrate Joseph Mifsud’s courtroom.

He was subsequently brought back in and told off by the magistrate, but continued to try and get a word in and insisted the court had been given the wrong facts.

The young man was in the dock for having allegedly attacked two police officers who had shown up at his house to arrest him over domestic violence charges.
Both officers were slightly injured in that scuffle.

The court heard on Wednesday that the young man had issues with his mother and had been arguing with his parents all day when police showed up.

The youth pleaded not guilty to a litany of charges, from threatening his parents to injuring the officers and violently resisting arrest, but did not request bail.

As Magistrate Mifsud gave him a scolding – “you haven’t shown any remorse”, he said – the accused kept answering back.

“The police officer hurt himself,” he told the court, as his lawyer, Raisa Colombo, tried to calm her client, to no avail.

The magistrate reiterated the importance of police officers being protected as they went about their duties.

Violence against police was on the rise and the court did not want officers to end up demoralised, the magistrate said

The young man was remanded in custody and led out of the courtroom.

Inspectors Eman Hayman and Oriana Spiteri prosecuted.