Jose A. Herrera should define 'shortly after'
Defence lawyer Jose A. and his sister Magistrate Herrera photographed together two months before this judgement.
The shadow minister for justice, Jose A. Herrera, released a statement yesterday declaring that he stopped arguing cases in his sister’s court “shortly after” a 2008 judgement by the European Court of Human Rights.
What’s this, then?
The Malta Independent
Court: Man guilty of forcing partner into prostitution
Article published on 16 December 2009
A man was yesterday handed an 18-month imprisonment sentence suspended for two years after pleading guilty to being a pimp to his partner. Nazzareno Lia, 45, residing in Cospicua admitted to living off the earnings of prostitution, and running a brothel at his residence. He also pleaded guilty to slightly injuring his partner and of frightening her.
Lia, who is unemployed, has two children with the victim, whose name cannot be published by court order. They have been on and off in their relationship for 13 years.
Mater Dei Hospital doctors filed a report when the woman was admitted for treatment. She later told the police that she no longer wanted to live the life she was living. Police inspectors Louise Calleja and Priscilla Caruana said the message that he must control himself, must get across.
The court, presided over by magistrate Consuelo Scerri Herrera told Lia to be very careful as he will no longer enjoy freedom, the minute he breaches one of the court imposed conditions.
Studying his criminal record, magistrate Scerri Herrera noted Lia had been involved in a couple of fights and was found guilty of illegal hunting, and carrying a firearm without a permit, among others.
The court issued a one-year protection order on the woman. He was ordered not to communicate with her for any reason. The couple’s two children are under a care order and reside at a children’s home.
Lawyers Jose Herrera and Veronique Dalli represented the accused.
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A note about the photograph
Magistrate Scerri Herrera complained in court that I had cropped this picture to remove her son on the left and the woman on the right, with the ulterior motive of making it seem that she was in a personal embrace with her brother who defended cases before her.
My response was that I had edited out her son because he was under 18 and the woman on the right because she is a private person. So to avoid further objections by the magistrate, I am reproducing the photograph in toto.
If somebody would kindly explain exactly what the relationship of the woman on the right is with the Herreras, it might help me understand exactly why she was Consuelo Herrera’s sole devoted supporter in court yesterday, sitting through the three-and-a-half hours of testimony passing rude remarks about me and pulling faces.
I’m told that her name is Doreen Sciberras and that she sells jumpers at Benetton at the Embassy Shopping Centre, though her Facebook page (trade school graduate, 1985) says she’s a shop manager for Carrera Jeans.If so, why is she Magistrate Herrera’s keyring?
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Integrity? Did someone mention integrity?
Ja buffu.
You thought you’d get away with it. No way Jose.
Not with Daphne after your sorry ass, you won’t.
Kemm jiflah ikun giddieb!
Thank you Daphne for trying to make these islands a better place.
Doreen Sciberras is also “Facebook friends” with Sandra Herrera, Jose Herrera, Chara Scerri Herrera and Justine Scerri Herrera, Consuelo’s sister-in-law, brother and daughters respectively.
There is Veronique Dalli as well.
And a Jo Meli.
Doreen Sciberras used to work with Benetton at the Embassy but left last year for a job as a salesgirl with Carrera Jeans in the same mall.
She’s from Valletta and lives there, and is probably one of Jose’s canvassers, making it even more inappropriate for the magistrate to spend so much time with her.
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APR 2011 Sciberras Doreen Fl 9, Triq il-Mediterran, Blokk 1, Il-Belt Valletta
APR 2009 Sciberras Doreen Fl 9, Triq il-Mediterran, Blokk 1, Valletta
APR 2007 Sciberras Doreen 19, Fl 4, Triq l-Ibjar, Valletta
OCT 2005 Sciberras Doreen 19/Fl 4, Triq l-Ibjar, Valletta
OCT 2004 Sciberras Doreen 19/Fl 4, Triq l-Ibjar, Valletta
MAR 2003 Sciberras Doreen 19/Fl 4, Triq l-Ibjar, Valletta
No other persons registered as living at either of her her addressed when she was living there.
Her latest address looks like government / social housing as the previous tenant of her flat had previously lived at Lourdes Home in Gozo.
I just love the amount of information that has been put out in the public domain by our government over the years.
Where did you get all this from?
Data from 6 electoral registers massaged into an Excel spreadsheet.
Are the electoral registers online? Does one have to register to access them?
Cirku ta’ buffi issa … ahseb u ara x’se jkunu u kif se jbiddlu lil dal-pajjiz la jkollhom is-siggu l-kbir tal-poter f’Kastilja!
Ikber, Malta, ikber!
”F’dal-pajjiz hawn masgar ghajnejn, u mank demgha wahda” (Mario Azzopardi, poeta)
Evarist Bartolo
I respect those who have no religion, who are atheists or agnostics but I also like what the Christian Maronite Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran says: “Different religions are like the different fingers of the same hand reaching for God.”
[Daphne – So they’re into Kahlil Gibran now. I thought people got over that at around 16.]
At least he didn’t quote his buddy Daniel Rondeau.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110908/local/Lawyer-queries-mere-500-fine-given-to-man-with-colourful-criminal-record-.383720
Some more tahwid, from the look of it…
Is that Stephen Spiteri at the back?
[Daphne – Yes.]
Doreen, k/a Dorina tal-Fjur, is jose’s chief canvasser. His office coffee maker and his Jill of all trades.
You don’t really want to mean ALL trades…
In that photo (fejn hemm Doreen ta’ qiegh il-Belt), is the man at the back on the right Dr. Stepehn Spiteri MP (PN)?
[Daphne – Yes.]
I admire Daphne’s tenacity in questioning the seedier and nepotistic tendencies on this otherwise wonderful island. Keep it up, someone has to.