U triduna nemmnu li se ssir gustizzja vera.

Il-vera morna l-bahar bil-gustizzja b’kollox taht dal-mishut gvern.

[Daphne – When I comment on people’s intelligence or the lack of it, trust me. I don’t say any such thing lightly, and it is always done from close personal observation.]

It is in the interest of the man with the gun and therefore his lawyer to expunge all blame from him and divert it onto other parties. Note that expunging Sheehan will not only involve putting all the blame on Morrison Smith but putting under scrutiny the response and actions of the police and any person who Sheehan communicated with during the whole saga.

He can after all argue that he contacted the police and he acted on their instructions.

To expunge Sheehan the defence might also need to look minutely at Sheehan’s brief and his agreement of service with Mallia. This might be verbal or therewise.

Babysitting for example might be one of the unwritten conditions. Another example is Mallia was OK with him going to visit his mother taking his car and weapon (and young daughter) with him.

So again my question is, how will this work?

Will Azzopardi ask Mallia to testify, to Sheehan’s good character for example?

There they laughed themselves silly, like children giggling in the back row. Otherwise, their silence throughout the speech is, to say the least, interesting. Perhaps all is not happy in the Land of Wonders.

He jumped ship as soon as he was contractually able to do so and joined the most despicable and despised set of defence lawyers.