”…….The case dates to December 2012 when Joseph Micallef, 57 and his sons Clydon, 30, and Luke, 26, were also charged with the illegal arrest and destruction of evidence after CCTV footage capturing the incident was allegedly “erased by mistake”…….”

”Luke Micallef told the police that, while driving to his girlfriend’s house, the CD containing a copy of the CCTV footage of the second incident had slipped off his dashboard and out of the car window. He had not delivered it to the police immediately as he “had no idea that it would be so important,” he claimed.

Magistrate Consuelo Scerri Herrera held this account to be truthful, noting that Mr Seisun had initially claimed to have been beaten by Luke and Clydon Micallef, but had then said that he had been facing the wall and could not identify his attackers. He had claimed that the dark-skinned man had also beaten him, but this man was not arraigned or summoned as a witness by both the prosecution and defence…..”

”..The court therefore upheld the self-defence argument and acquitted the accused.”

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20160328/local/zejtun-trio-found-not-guilty-of-beating-shoplifter.607122

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