Shadow Club staff evacuate clubbers due to ceiling fires

Aug 24 2021

Shadow Club staff handled a breakout of small fires in the establishment’s ceiling expertly by evacuating everyone out to avoid any injuries. The incident happened at around 12:30 am, with fire department officials getting on location quickly and controlling the situation before it could get out of hand.

No one was injured as the stuff took immediate actions to evacuate everyone outside, with club management stating that staff receives training on such matters on a monthly basis to be prepared for such cases. The club below Shadow was also evacuated for health and safety reasons. The fire was immediately controlled with expertise. Police are investigating cause of fires.

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Love Island villa has its new crowned couple for 2021

Aug 24 2021

Following the return of much anticipated and beloved series Love Island after 18 months of pandemic uncertainty, Millie Court and Liam Reardon have been crowned winners for 2021. It seems as though Love Island has only just started, but the pair have managed to beat three other couples and win the £50,000 prize as the series was broadcast from its Spanish villa for almost two months.

Millie, a fashion buyer’s assistant from Essex, almost split from Liam, a Welsh bricklayer, after he proved unfaithful during Casa Amor Week. The couple was made exclusive however, managing to beat the finale’s other couples. These included Chloe Burrows and Toby Aromolaran; Faye Winter and Teddy Soares; and Kaz Kamwi and Tyler Cruickshank. The programme faced an uncertain return due to COVID-19 hitting, but in following health measures, the show carried on. Do you agree with this year’s decision to crown Millie and Liam?

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Young Twanny Aquilina was murdered today 61 years ago

Aug 23 2021

The story of Twanny Aquilina shook the Maltese islands when he was found killed in his parents’ house 61 years ago today at the age of 8. The boy was found in a pool of blood, with his throat slit deep. The main suspect was his own mother, Luigia Camilleri, known most prominently as Giga, along with her husband Leli. Some believe the case was solved, with the parents being the actual murderers. Others believe that the couple were wrongly convicted and jailed innocently.

Giga always plead innocent, but all to no avail. The mother was destined to receive capital punishment, but the sentence was instead changed to life imprisonment. Her husband received 20 years in prison along with hard labour. The boy is considered a saintly child by many, with the Maltese lawyer Carmel Chetcuti who once lived in the vicinity still visiting the site on a yearly basis.

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Photo Source: The Malta Independent

Yorgen Fenech’s lawyers demand to see Keith Schembri’s lost mobile data

Aug 23 2021

Yorgen Fenech’s lawyers are demanding to see essential evidence gained by the police from Keith Schembri’s mobile phone as this evidence can support the businessman’s claims. This is the focus of an application filed by Fenech in constitutional proceedings seeking to have lead investigator superintendent Keith Arnaud kicked off the probe into the assassination of late journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Lawyers are now claiming that a full extraction of data from the former chief of staff’s mobile phone is in the hands of the police. Times of Malta had revealed that Schembri’s phone went offline shortly before getting arrested in December 2019. Investigators subsequently testified that he claimed to have lost his phone.

Being arrested twice again, once in 2020 and again in 2021, prosecutors have charged him with money laundering, criminal conspiracy, fraud and forgery. Fenech’s lawyers said that seized data was lost forever and was essential to prove their client’s claims.

With the constitutional case before Mr Justice Lawrence Mintoff seemingly coming to its end with judgement due in November, the application filed earlier this month states that police had taken possession for the full extractions from Schembri’s phone.

Fenech argued that it would be ‘manifestly wrong’ that ‘when, in future, the truth emerges, it is seen that there was evidence which could have been brought before the court but was left out because of procedural obstacles.’

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