Is justice served now?

“One day, the judge’s wife began to wonder what other kinds of meat the butcher kept hidden behind that counter of his, and she telephoned him to enquire about the special sausage she heard he reserved for his favourite clients…”

Asking for a mobile from the butcher had nothing to do with ‘being cheap’. It had to do with taking the precaution of having the mobile registered in the butcher’s name so that the conversations would be from the butcher’s daughter to her father and vice-versa.

The telephone system does not distinguish who is in possession of the mobile and no action is taken unless the mobile is reported lost or stolen.

This puts the former judge in deeper trouble because it proves that his schemes were premeditated and not a slip of the moment.

Veru trid tkun medjokru bla kuxjenza u korrot biex taghmel dawn l-affarijiet.

Tghid anke x-xirja tal-laham kien jiehu b’xejn?

And what’s more, I’ve just paid Eur400 to get the car repaired which I could have got for free if I was married to a judge.

And my husband calmly replied “I’m sorry, dear, that I did not live up to your expectations, but look on the bright side, at least you did not end up with a husband who has to sign in at the police station every day, and my assets are not frozen”.

I was hoping against hope that some tragic misunderstanding has lead to his being charged with corruption, trading in influence and so on.

However, as the more sordid details started emerging, I felt nothing but contempt for this man, but not because he fell from grace. We are not saints and we can all really fall from grace.

However, when it started to become clear how cheap Ray Pace was (and is) my shock turned to contempt. You are indeed very right: the man being cheap makes the matter so much worse.

And Ray Pace thought nothing of compromising Jesmond Micallef by using a phone registered in his name to organise his other shady business.