Commissioner for Law Reform defends cockfighters in court

You couldn’t make it up, could you. This stuff just writes itself (I’m looking at you, H. P.). Men caught at a cockfight in Tal-Handaq a couple of days ago were indicted this morning, and the defence counsel to one of them is none other than Franco Debono, Commissioner for Law Reform, a man who collects effigies of cocks and places them in a glass-fronted cupboard in his mother’s home, and who has a past history of cockfighting in the more primitive side of life in Hal Ghaxaq years ago.

One person who described to me the cockfights of their boyhood explained how Debono, when he saw that his cock was losing the fight, would rush in, scoop it up and scuttle off. That really figures.