Commissioner of Police requested to take action against Consuelo Herrera, for perjury
Silvio Zammit, the man who had reported Consuelo Herrera for investigation by the Commission for the Administration of Justice, has sent in the comment below. The allegations refer to a land deal.
I don’t know why, but I have the funniest feeling that when the Commissioner of Police received this ‘kwerela’ against Consuelo Herrera, he didn’t send a squad car with four policemen to park outside her house until she returned home at 1.30am that night, with a summons to call at Police HQ for questioning – just as they did to me when Consuelo Herrera filed her own ‘kwerela’ against me last year.
They probably didn’t speak to her at all, and this ‘kwerela’ is still sitting on the Commissioner’s desk – though if she has indeed been investigated by the police, that is a matter of great public interest and we should be told at once.
Just as we should be told if she hasn’t been investigated, and why not.
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On 15th April 2011, I personally handed in a report at Police Headquarters, addressed to the Commissioner of Police, supported by copies of official documents, requesting that action be taken against Magistrate Consuelo Scerri Herrera for perjury, amongst other transgressions, as set out in my report.
To date I have not been informed what action, if any, is being taken.
Likewise, I have not heard anything from the Attorney General, the Minister for Justice and Home Affairs, and the Prime Minister, who are all cognizant of these serious accusations of maladministration of justice.
I must add that I’m utterly confounded by the fact that the Commission for the Administration of Justice has also kept mum about the outcome of its investigation of Magistrate Consuelo Scerri Herrera, which was initiated on 10th September 2008 with the final submissions being made on 1st July 2010, twelve months ago.
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This is something so serious that if the authorities do not explain what’s going on, then we expect resignations.
If the Commissioner of Police fails to be transparent, we expect his resignation.
If the Minister for Police fails to give us the details, we expect his resignation.
If the Prime Minister covers for these two, we expect his resignation.
We cannot go on with cover-ups. We expect transparency.
If Mr Zammit is telling us the truth – and I see no reason to doubt his word – then we expect FULL TRANSPARENCY.
It is logical to suppose that after full transparency, there should be Consuelo Herrera’s resignation as magistrate.
If the Police Commissioner, Minister of Police and Prime Minister are not transparent, and keep giving refuge to Consuelo Herrera, then we expect THEIR resignation.
It’s high time people started behaving conscientiously. Their conscience should guide them as to the right decisions. It is IMMORAL and IRRELIGIOUS to cover up for someone who dabbles in God knows which muddy waters.
WE EXPECT CLARITY ON THIS SORDID AFFAIR.
Sordid affair? What an unfortunate choice of words!
Don’t hold your breath waiting for a resignation, not in Malta.
May I suggest that a “challenge” application be made to the law courts ordering the police to take action?
I presume that things have changed since Mintoff’s time when I challenged the police to take action against an acting Commissioner of Police for perjury in sworn evidence before the Public Service Commission, submitting as my evidence the official Disciplinary Board records legally in my possession and the oral testimony of numerous police witnesses.
The lawyer from the office of the Attorney General fought tooth and nail to prevent me from submitting documents and threatened my witnesses with unspecified retaliatory disciplinary action if they gave evidence on my behalf even though he did not contest the veracity of thie evidence.
Unfortunately for me, those were other times with different customs. The magistrate even begged me in open court to withdraw my “challenge” but I declined. The end result was that the magistrate adjourned the case, supposedly sine die.
Within a couple of days the magistrate read out his sentence in his “secreta”, with only his court registrar in attendance, deliberately omitting to notify me or my lawyer about that “sitting”.
I am starting to see the downside of the fact that magistrates are no longer allowed to have Facebook. It used to give us access to some fresh compromising photos from time to time.
One man’s corruption is another woman’s normal practice.
Was this before or after she thought he was Michael Cassar?
http://www.maltamedia.com/news/2005/ln/printer_10482.shtml
[Daphne – He was the one she brought to lunch, before this arraignment.]
Yep, that’s the man! http://www.remax-malta.com/240061006-1562
What really gets my goat is the fact that all the ‘conscience’ brigade – Lawrence, Gonzi, Tonio, Tonio, Austin but above all President George Abela, the official defender of justice and the constitution – to all of whom the freedom to opt for divorce was such a problem, have said and done nothing about this cataclysm in the administration of justice in Malta.
With all due respect to Eddie Fenech Adami at this difficult time for him, this is something which he should have been raging against, not the people’s right to have secular laws.
Some cows are sacred. Some cows are more sacred than others.
please….with all due respect to cows!
. . . and some sacreds are more cow than others
This cow should really stop digging. Any udder cow would have stopped months ago.
Don’t you know that in Malta conscience applies only to sex and family – it’s the Birkirkara/Lija/Balzan/Attard Jesuitical brand of ethics.
Sex, family, and anything military.
Kif jghid Gowsef, “the end justifies the means.:
Dear D. can’t you report all this bare faced corruption of so many high officials to the European Commissioner of Justice
Dear Mr. Frendo,
Why should she? What’s stopping you from doing it yourself? Passing the bucket, in complete conformity with our f…..g culture. Please excuse my French but really.
The more I read about our courts and police the less trust I have in them.
Dr F Saliba, what stopped you from naming the persons concerned?
@ Carlos.
Which particular persons am I supposed to identify again?
The Acting Commisioner of Police and the magistrate were soon rewarded for their services.
The first was promoted to substantive Commissioner of Police and later an AFM Colonel whilst the magistrate was made a judge. They are both dead now as also the lawyer from the office of the Attorney General, who had the odious job of obstructing my recourse to the law courts.
The real culprit is still alive (somewhat and at the time of writing). I mentioned him by name.
The irony is that such things are happening in this country with the blessing of the Prime Minister and DCG keeps defending him. I had a similar experience myself which made decide not to vote in any other General Election as long as I live.
[Daphne – Exactly where am I defending the prime minister? I agree with him or not depending on the situation. But apparently, nobody is allowed to agree with him anymore.]
Referring to my ‘Naivety 101’ manual, could it possibly be that the Commissioner is waiting for the outcome of the present case before he proceeds with fresh charges against the esteemed magistrate?
Just a thought.
Remove the word ‘fresh’ and replace with ‘perjury’.
Of all the ministers and PM mentioned above who should have…the President, as Head of the Administration of Justice, defender of the Constitution etc., etc., should be first in line and inform the public of the result of the AoJ’s review of the magistrate’s conduct completed almost a year ago.