Nazzareno Briffa was this morning jailed for three years after he was last week found guilty of seriously injuring Peter Borg when he shot him outside his farm.

He was cleared of the attempted murder of Mr Borg after jurors decided he acted out of "sudden passion" when he was not in the right frame of mind.

Mr Briffa, 49, of Birkirkara, was found guilty of seriously injuring Mr Borg but the jury's verdict was that this crime was "excusable" due to the "sudden passion".

He was also found guilty of the illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition and of damaging a billboard.

During a week-long trial, jurors heard how the two men had argued in a bar on July 22, 2009. Mr Briffa had gone home to fetch a shotgun and went to Mr Borg’s farm on the Birkirkara bypass.

He fired two shots at a Banif Bank billboard and then shot Mr Briffa in the face when he came out to see what had happened.

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