Did people really need the Archbishop to tell them that Angelik Caruana is just a common fraudster?

The man has cheated people right across his home town of Birzebbuga, where shopkeepers will tell you quite readily that he owes money to practically all of them, that he’s a lazy loser, liar and fraud.

He’s not even a good actor – the YouTube videos of his religious visitations make for hilarious viewing, particularly this one in which he is “attacked by 10 devils” (he counted them). The tallish, thinnish, bossy woman with short light brown hair, who seems to be directing operations, is Mrs Angelik Caruana, a former policewoman.

Even those who believed in him most fervently need not have waited until the Archbishop pronounced himself. The matter should have ended for them when forensic pathologists analysed the blood ‘oozing from the eyes’ of Caruana’s plastic Madonna, and found that it was his, and that the transparent, sticky substance which ‘oozed out’ intermittently was cooking oil from his kitchen cupboard.