Frankly, they have brought nothing but ill repute to their respective professions, although Consie’s is the one that has to be addressed immediately.

MISTRA

I disagree. Two faced lying and cheating behind the backs of those who trust him? Perfect fit for this administration.

Fair enough. What about as soon as the relationship was “public”? Wouldn’t that have been a better timing than two weeks ago?

[Daphne – I had no reason to do so, but now I do. I am not an investigative reporter, nor do I work for a newsroom. Perhaps that is a question you should address to Malta Today, which persecuted the former police commissioner but thought nothing of the magistrate’s extra curricular activities. Your reasoning carries within it a logical fallacy: that the timing of the discussion makes the discussion somehow wrong. The discussion would have been the same whether it took place six months ago or now, for the content would have been the same and the implications also. You also fail to overlook that the reason why I came out with all this now is yet more evidence of the magistrate’s sorry behaviour: apparently colluding with a scandal-rag on a story (she knew what they were working on before it was published), using incomplete and even false information to which she was privy through the police/courts, and maliciously telling her dinner guests to buy the newspaper the next day to read about me – when I am appearing before her in two cases. It is better that these things are said now than that they are left unsaid. I imagine that you are unfamiliar with the way the media works. In all stories, there is invariably a trigger. People do not release information for nothing, having woken up one day and decided to do it. They have to have a reason to pick up the phone and talk to a journalist; something triggers them. The problem here is that you are confusing my role as the one who reveals with my other role as the one who writes about it, because in my case, the two are in one. I just happen to write and have a popular blog, that’s all. But I am NOT a reporter, even though I have reporting skills and investigating skills, and have worked as one very briefly. My work is something else, in another field entirely.]

[Daphne – I would never have done anything so utterly horrible to Dr Scerri and Mrs Musumeci, who didn’t know at the time. Imagine waking up one morning to learn, along with the rest of the country, that your spouse is currently cheating on you. Finding out is bad enough; finding out through a newspaper, and so publicly, is terrible. That’s why I think the political party should have done it, removing him quietly from the list and dispatching him to sort himself out. Though I believe that it is wrong to conceal the clandestine affairs of legislators and those in positions of power, like magistrates and judges, because it can have implications on their public life, I find the business of talking about it completely distasteful because revelation, unfortunately, also means a shock to the spouses involved. It is only now that the two people involved in this case are living together that I feel able to talk about it at all.]