Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando’s gun
I’ve known this for a long while and have thought a great deal about whether to tell you about it or not. Then I thought, this is ridiculous – the man holds a prominent position as executive chairman of the Malta Council for Science and Technology, and is in charge of a budget of millions in public funds. Of course people should know about it.
Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando kept a gun at home, and I don’t mean a hunting rifle. When he was still married to Marlene Farrugia, he pulled the gun on her while screaming and shouting in a mammoth row, then changed his mind, shoved the gun-barrel into his mouth and ran around in a frenzy threatening to kill himself instead.
His children were present.
In his transport of rage, he overlooked the fact that there was somebody else also present who did not belong to the household. This person was terrified out of her wits.
I write this because I realise there are some people who still don’t understand that the chairman of the Malta Council for Science and Technology is not a clown or a sad fool but a very dangerous person. He is not unstable in a harmless way. He is unstable in a dangerous way.
People tend not to associate unadulterated viciousness, aggression, cruelty and total lack of empathy with very small, slight men who have blue eyes and prance about. They associate it with big, burly men with black eyes and tattoos.
Even on television, you can see the violence and aggression in the way he talks, in his body language, when the subject is somebody he hates or something about which he feels ‘strongly’.
Both his wives literally fled with their things hastily crammed into bags.
I filed a report against him with the police not so much because of the content of his messages (though that too) but because the rapid-fire pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop of one message coming in after another signals extreme aggression and an unbalanced temperament. And the messages themselves further denote inability: a threat followed by crass insinuations about other people followed by a vulgar insult followed by a smiley emoticon followed by aggressive language followed by goodnight wishes.
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Daphne, are you on Red Bull too?
[Daphne – No, I am working on a 200-page magazine which has to go to print on Thursday. This involves the inevitable all-nighter here and there because we won’t make it otherwise. In between pages I put up the occasional post.]
thank you daphne for your hard work it is appreciated .
This JPO person seems to suffer from severe psychiatric problems.
L-ebda persuna li ghandha mohh stabbli u matur ma jimpjega l-girlfriend ta’ ftit gimghat bhala s-segretarja tieghu.
Assolutament mhu healthy ghal hadd u mhux l-inqas ghal kumpanija (f’dal kaz il-gvern mit-taxxi taghna). X’jigri u kif jiffunzjona x-xoghol meta dawn ikollhom xi argument bhal kull koppja ohra.
The amazing part is that he is given carte blanche to do as he pleases by this Labour government, including as you mentioned, the hiring of his new girlfriend as his secretary and at great expense to the tax paying public.
Any idiot can have fantasies in this life but most idiots are not given the chance to make them happen.
His enablers are far worse than he is when the whole situation is analyzed.
It seems he easily forgets Lara Boffa and thinks of you.
Daphne, you already wrote about this some time ago. The only new detail is the girl/woman who witnessed all this.
[Daphne – It wasn’t a post.]
He was part of an assault on a 20-year-old ‘kid’ outside that pastizzi shop in Rabat.
And bouncers had to physically remove him from the VVIP enclosure at a David Guetta concert because he got into a fight with another man. That was when he told us that his drink was spiked, remember.
It seems pretty obvious that he hates you, Daphne. Hate is a form of love, albeit in the negative.
The opposite of lack of love is indifference, which is not the case here.
In spite of all he writes to/about you, he is secretly envious of you, looks up to and respects you and in a convoluted way, I believe, might actually be infatuated with you (see smileys and nice wish messages). And since this is of course not reciprocated, he goes into ‘sour grapes’ mode and denigrates you.
And yes, this can be very dangerous indeed, looking at his clearly aggressive personality.
So his first marriage was violent, and Marlene did well when she left him.
I thought otherwise.
I am sure that this left a very bad impact on his wife and children. And how come that women flock to him? This is his third relationship.
Daphne, what you are stating here is very serious and carries great responsibility. Is this true? How come that you know all this?
Were you one of his circle of friends?
You did the right thing when you reported him, you never know what might happen.
[Daphne – Yes, of course it’s true. Why would I say something like this otherwise? I can’t say how I know. No, I did not even know him at the time, and we were never friends. We have nothing in common and the people he mixes with are pretty messy. Yes, I think I was right to report him.]
Never judge who or what a man is by whether some women gravitate towards him or not. Some women have been known to want to marry, and some do, serial killers. Charles Manson is the latest one in the news.
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-killer-marriages-20141201-story.html
The sad thing is that the Police are not at liberty to bring him in for 36 hour questioning, nor others exactly like him.
The even sadder thing is he’ll remain chairman of the MCST.
You wait and see, in the event that we drag on with this lame lot, cleansing will be next, to be accomplished by mid-March, 2015.
Herr Stasi kümmert sich darum.
Oh really? If the Nationalist administration kept him safe on that chair for five years, what chance have we with Labour?
Sometimes your optimism borders on delusion.
The Nationalists had one set of choices and I think that the two situations do not present a parallel set of identical choices.
Time will tell.
Rather Cassandra, in this this context.
Whether he stays or is removed the context won’t have changed for most.
But interesting that you would call it optimistic.
People with mental problems should have their gun licences withdrawn, before something horrible happens.
[Daphne – Great. So we withdraw their gun licence and give them a budget of millions to play with in the decision-making position at a state council.]
“give them a budget of millions to play with in the decision-making position at a state council”
Just ask a couple of scientists at the University about their ordeals when dealing with MCST in the context of RIDT funding.
I was focusing on the danger of life and limb.
That’s the first step, then the rest will follow.
It is worth differentiating between ‘mental health issues’ and ‘untreated mental health issues’.
Did/does Jeff have a licence?
[Daphne – No.]
How long ago was this?
Is any criminal action time-barred?
The law (Chapter 480) says, “3. Without prejudice to the provisions of this Act –
(a) the acquisition, possession for whatever purpose, keeping or importation of the arms proper and ammunition referred to in Schedule I shall be prohibited;”
and
“51. (1) Any person who contravenes article 3 shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction:
(a) if the conviction relates to an arm proper, to imprisonment from three months to ten years;”
The Criminal Code says,
“688. Save as otherwise provided by law, criminal action is
barred-
(b) by the lapse of fifteen years in respect of crimes liable to imprisonment for a term of less than twenty but not less than nine years;”
Could some reader more knowledgeable than I advise on this?
This is a continuing (as distinguished from a continued) offence.
Hence the offence perpetuates in time for as long as the possession continues in the hands of the perpetrator.
This sort of offence cannot be prescribed, unless and until no action is taken from when the possession of the fire arm ceases.
When the possession ceases then prescription commences to run in favour of the offender. If the possession renews at sometime in the future, it is a new offence.
OK.
So now we expect the Police to investigate.
Will the other media pick up this story?
Chairman Jeffrey might be liable to criminal prosecution.
‘I will not shirk taking decisions over shooting incident.’ We all know who said that. JPO should have long ago be given the chop by ‘ I will not shirk taking decisions over shooting incident’
The cheap lying clown.
Employing people in certain positions, in my opinion, requires a psychometric test. I wonder what would come out of it if he ever takes one.
I was surprised what I found out from such tests. Maybe food for thought for our PM, considering the way things are evolving.
Apparently they do the psychometric test, it is just that failing it is compulsory to qualify rather than passing.
Daphne, you’re describing a man with serious psychiatric problems.
You must be exaggerating – I’ve never seen our Jeff leaning against his car protesting against MEPA outside our dear PM’s office.
Sounds like a person with NPD. They thrive on attention like a drug addict needs his fix.
They go into vicious irrational manipulative tantrums when in a relationship. They also hop very easily from one amorous relationship to another, love-bombing the hell out of their next victim when their previous victim no longer remains useful or has, even worse, seen them for what they really are and discarded them.
No, NPD is different. The way he behaves is very much like someone with a pronounced borderline personality disorder. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_personality_disorder
Not that this is any consolation though…
Get a restraining order.
Difficult for Lara Boffa to discard him. She will be out of a job that same day.
The only job she can find is posing for a PL poster.
She can get a job on stage playing the part of Zorba the Greek.
Pity her; her job will be blown.
Revenge of the psychotic nerd. Having his sick mind studied could be his only contribution to science.
Having it repaired could be his only contribution to technology.
The target shooting community in Malta is not too big and we self-police each other quite a bit.
I have never seen JPO on the range, so what is he doing with this gun if he’s not a target shooter?
Is he a collector? He’s not known in those circles either.
Either way, this sort of erratic behaviour with a firearm (even if just hearsay) should result in, at the barest minimum, a heart-to-heart from his local police inspector, following which further action could be taken.
This is what would happen to anybody else, why is JPO any different?
[Daphne – No, it is not hearsay. And that was one of many similar incidents. The police can’t act on something they don’t know about.]
Does the good dentist have a licence to possess that gun? And fancy brandishing it around in front of the wife and young kids. If I was Lara’s mom I would be very concerned with the sort of company my daughter is keeping.
Is she still saying ‘God bless you’?
But now they know about it.
Will they investigate?
Mr Zammit, will you investigate?
Does Chairman Jeffrey still keep an unlicensed gun at home?
The Criminal Code says, “346. (1) It is the duty of the Police to preserve public order and peace, to prevent and to detect and investigate offences, to collect evidence, whether against or in favour of the person suspected of having committed that offence, and to bring the offenders, whether principals or accomplices, before the judicial authorities.”
Now that they know that Jeffry Pullicino Orlando keeps an unlicensed gun at home, will the Police investigate an offence, collect evidence and bring the offender before the judicial authorities in terms of art. 346(1) of the Criminal Code of Malta?
What do Malta’s scientists think of their research and reputation being subjected to the whims and tantrums of a dentist with a fondness for Earl Grey?
Are you saying he owns a gun without a licence?
What’s this, Taxi Driver?
No, it’s Paranoid Jeff.
So why didn’t he pull the trigger?
Because he’s a living paradox. He’s paranoid. And he’s a chicken.
Paranoid Jeff, the Chicken.
Pity he didn’t pull on the trigger when the gun was in his mouth. He would have saved the country much sufferance.
Watch it. One of my friends is a psychiatrist. She has an off duty mobile phone number which he gives to her patients. She once explained to me that she never replies on the first call. She always waits ten minutes. If the patient calls repeatedly within those ten minutes, then it means that he or she is in a state of frenzy and she gets the hospital to call them or send someone. If the patient calls again after ten minutes then she replies or calls back herself. According to her patients who call or text repeatedly are already out of control and potentially dangerous.
That puts Franco-600-messages-a-day-Debono firmly in permanent emergency territory.