Magistrate Anthony Vella has been promoted to a judge, thus relinquishing the magisterial inquiry into the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Given the choice between continuing with a poisoned chalice or of accepting a judgeship as a bomb shelter, what sane person would decide otherwise?

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