Yorgen Fenech’s lawyers question ‘missing’ report on Daphne's clone phone
A report on data extracted from Daphne Caruana Galizia’s cloned mobile phone was not available to the defence “on the eve” of Yorgen Fenech’s trial and appeared “not to exist” in the records of the murder case. The issue came to the fore during a sitting in constitutional proceedings wherein lawyers for the man accused of alleged complicity in the murder of the journalist in October 2017 are claiming that his right to a fair hearing was breached by non-disclosure of data. Fenech’s lawyers are claiming that police were selective in handing over data gathered throughout the murder probe and that without full disclosure there could be no trial. A piece of evidence still not available to Fenech’s defence team was a report prepared by a Europol expert who, back in March 2018, had been tasked by the magistrate handling the murder inquiry at the time, to examine data from a clone of the murdered journalist’s phone. The information came to light when that expert was summoned to testify via video-link in Fenech’s non-disclosure case. Marinus Martin Van Der Meij confirmed that he had been appointed by then-magistrate Anthony Vella to forensically examine data extracted from the...