A truck driver with a company registered in the British Virgin Islands

The man shot dead last night – one of the two accused of bribing or trying to bribe a judge who later hanged himself, to sentence a drug-trafficking rival to a longer spell in prison – described himself as a lorry driver.

But he had a company registered in the British Virgin Islands, because you can make so much money driving lorries, especially in Malta.

Same mistake again, this morning, I see: bullet-ridden instead of bullet-riddled. It’s a stupid mistake and not an ‘u ija mhux xorta’ one, because the words ‘ridden’ and ‘riddled’ have completely different meanings and ‘ridden’ does not make any sense in the context.

‘Ridden’ means burdened (as in guilt-ridden, hag-ridden or debt-ridden). ‘Riddled’ means full of small holes. It comes from the old word ‘riddle’, a sort of sieve.