Manuel takes Codruta to the festa (it’s free)

Here are photographers, sent in by a reader, showing corrupt ex Police, Army and Citizenship Minister Manuel Mallia (still a government MP) with his wife of three years, Codruta nee Cristian of Bucharest, whose hospital bill he is still refusing to pay for the birth of the twins he produced in his 60s before marrying her.

They are in the band club balcony at the feast of Sacro Cuor Parish in Sliema, a Labour heartland.

Another free night out for Mallia, where he doesn’t have to spend a cent – you really have to be from a Romanian gutter to think that’s the high life.

I wonder if they’re still using water from the fountain at the Mainguard to wash their clothes and floors.

Corrupt and penny-pinching – a combination that seems to be unique to the Maltese political class.