Perjury
She lied under oath at least three times and nobody is prosecuting her for perjury - but then she has plenty of friends in low places
If Chris Said is facing criminal prosecution for perjury because he made a mistake in court and said that temporary custody was granted to the mother in the evening, when it was granted a few hours earlier in the afternoon, then I hope the police and the attorney-general will rush to bring Magistrate Consuelo Herrera before the criminal court for lying brazenly about Assistant Police Commissioner Michael Cassar, under oath, and for, at a subsequent hearing, suggesting that it is he who is lying because ‘as far as she is aware’ she is telling the truth.
She also lied about the nature of her scrutiny by the Commission for the Administration of Justice.
And the chances are that she’s going to lie again when she is asked, under cross-examination, whether she ever had sex with policemen while she was a magistrate and still living with her husband.
It’s either that or prove me right.
For shame.
This is a taste of things to come. There are two and a half years to go yet before Labour gets into power and this is how their people behave because they think they are on the rise and rise.
The shame is that nobody seems willing to stand up to them because of the overwhelming sense that the barbarians are now at the gate.
Ordinarily decent people are permitting gross indecencies to be perpetrated on others.
The lawyer who persecuted Chris Said beyond the limits of decency, ethics and commonsense – making full use of the dirty tricks department – is Justyne Caruana, Labour MP.
Was she acting purely disinterestedly, on her client’s behalf, or was she pursuing her political party’s own more sinister and disreputable ends?
When Labour’s hour approaches, you can begin to smell the stink of totalitarianism and moral corruption. They think corruption is about money and bribes. It isn’t always.
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Something terrible has happened today…
In the Chris Said case as I understand it, it was the child’s father who insisted the court prosecute him through the police for ‘perjury’. The father is directly involved in the case.
As a person also directly involved in a case, can you (Daphne) not insist on the same thing against Scerri Herrera, particularly since Assistant Police Commissioner Michael Cassar even wrote to the Chief Justice denying what Scerri Herrera said in court and therefore, the evidence is also there, literally, in black and white?
[Daphne – Of course I can, and I will. But the case has to be concluded first.]
I was not aware of that chronological legal requirement.
When you do, I can see Consuelo Scerri Herrera rushing to hand in her resignation until the case is over.
Arukaza ta’ nies.
@ Daphne: are you sure the case has to be concluded first?
Was not Dr Scerri Herrera already contradicted in court by Mr Cassar?
[Daphne – No. We have reached that stage in the proceedings yet. He wrote to the Chief Justice immediately after her testimony, but he has not been called as a witness yet. It’s early days.]
If Dr Scerri Herrera is believed, then it would mean that Mr Cassar could be charged for perjury.
[Daphne – Magistrate Herrera will not be believed against the testimony of the former head of the vice squad and my own. We have no reason to lie and she does.]
Gismi qam xewk xewk mal-ahbar.
What is this country coming to? I am still reeling in shock at the news. This action was meant to harm Chris Said, however the hand behind all this has failed to realise how much loved and appreciated Chris is, and that the world is a circle for a reason – what goes round comes round.
The way I see it (and from the comments left by hard core Labourites on timesofmalta.com) all that’s happened today has harmed the Labour Party and the hand behind all this more than it will harm Chris Said (in the long-term at least). Kuragg Chris. Justice will be done.
Ma nfaqatx tibki din id-darba Justyne?
Kif dejjem nghid jien, meta jridu jrabbu kuragg qawwi biex ikissruk, u hekk ghad irid jigri, u jinsew kemm kienu moderati, irrikonciljati, u mal-isqof u mal-Papa etc.
L-istorja ghad trid tirrepeti ruha u din id-darba hadd ma jista jwahhal f’hadd.
Yes apparently Justyne’s delicate constitution is not so delicate at the moment.
And let’s not forget that fellow from Gozo who resigned as council member. He is being prosecuted for allowing his daughter to access her Facebook page on his council laptop.
When are you due back in court?
[Daphne – I don’t know, because I haven’t been notified yet.]
Good for DCG to proceed against Consuelo.
It is sickening to see that she still occupies such a position. What a cheek!
Make that a butt cheek – wicca u sorma l-istess.
why the commissioner of police never brought to justice the magistrate Consuelo scerri herrera for lying underoath agaisnt CASSAR? He should defended a member of his corp I think.
[Daphne – Michael Cassar is more than capable of defending himself.]
Unfortunately sometimes democracy has its limits too.
Imagine if somebody had shot Hitler during the Weimar Republic circa 1925. Visualise his status today in Europe?
Hero instead of villain perhaps. It is a shame that in certain cases the people in power cannot do the “right thing” because to them the “right thing” is the most difficult option and would tar them with the same brush as the “opposition”. It also opens up a can of worms on the real merits of democracy and education.
You state that ‘the chances are that she’s going to lie again when she is asked, under cross-examination, whether she ever had sex with policemen while she was a magistrate and still living with her husband.’
A more damning question would be whether she ever lied when giving evidence under oath during the investigations by The Commission for the Administration of Justice.
Unfortunately this is not a taste of things to come but a taste of things that are already here. What might come will be much worse.
I hope my comment is not taken in the wrong way, I do not condone any kind of “coup d’etat” mentality or fascist right wing sympathies, it’s just simply seeing what is right and what is wrong needs sorting out….Think I have been in Africa too long!
2013 is not so very far away – everyone is afraid of getting the Order of the Boot – even judges and magistrates!