Six lawsuits for damages, filed by a number of spectators among the 23 victims injured during the ill-fated Paqpaqli ghall-Istrina charity event three years ago, have been withdrawn.

Following recent media reports announcing that 11 of the victims had received compensation in a settlement agreement with the Malta Community Chest Fund Foundation, the pending civil lawsuits were formally declared closed on Friday morning.

The declaration was made in open court by Mr Justice Lawrence Mintoff, presiding over the six cases filed last year against the President, the Malta Community Chest Fund, members of the Paqpaqli ghall-Istrina core organisational committee as well as Paul Bailey.

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The latter was the millionaire philanthropist behind the wheel of the Porsche Spyder 918 which had spun out of control, ploughing into the crowd of spectators on that fateful afternoon of October 4, 2015.

When the cases were called on Friday morning, Mr Justice Mintoff declared that, in the light of separate notes filed by the applicants in the court registry earlier in the week, all six lawsuits had been formally ceded. Some of the defendants and their lawyers were present.

As the curtain fell on these civil lawsuits, the compilation of evidence, presided over by magistrate Aaron Bugeja, against the Porsche driver and the 13 members of the former Paqpaqli ghall-Istrina core organising committee, is scheduled to continue next week.