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Departure EARLY BOOKING PRICES From* 02-Apr Malta - Piraeus - Chania - Katakolon - Zakynthos - Malta € 768 09-Apr Malta - Civitavecchia - Livorno - Monte Carlo - Ajaccio - Malta € 768 16-Apr Malta - Kotor - Split - Venice - Zadar - Malta € 768 23-Apr Malta - Piraeus - Nafplio - Katakolon - Cephalonia - Malta € 768 30-Apr Malta - Olbia - Villefranche - Livorno - Civitavecchia - Malta € 742 07-May Malta - Hvar - Venice - Zadar - Dubrovnik - Malta € 794 14-May Malta - Piraeus - Mykonos - Heraklion - Gythion - Malta € 794 21-May Malta - Olbia - Villefranche - Livorno - Civitavecchia - Malta € 768 28-May Malta - Zadar - Venice - Rijeka - Hvar - Malta € 794 04-Jun Malta - Cannes - Livorno - Olbia - Naples - Malta € 896 11-Jun Malta - Piraeus - Santorini - Heraklion - Rhodes - Malta € 896 18-Jun Malta - Dubrovnik - Rovinj - Venice - Split - Malta € 896 25-Jun Malta - Civitavecchia - Livorno - Olbia - Naples - Malta € 896 02-Jul Malta - Piraeus - Chania - Katakolon - Zakynthos - Malta € 960 09-Jul Malta - Zadar - Venice - Split - Kotor - Malta € 960 16-Jul Malta - Civitavecchia - Livorno - Monte Carlo - Ajaccio - Malta € 960 23-Jul Malta - Piraeus - Nafplio - Katakolon - Cephalonia - Malta € 960 30-Jul Malta - Zadar - Venice - Sibenik - Dubrovnik - Malta € 960 06-Aug Malta - Olbia- Villefranche - Livorno - Civitavecchia - Malta € 1,024 13-Aug Malta - Piraeus - Mykonos - Heraklion - Gythion - Malta € 1,024 20-Aug Malta - Zadar - Venice - Rijeka - Hvar - Malta € 1,024 27-Aug Malta - Cannes - Livorno - Olbia - Naples - Malta € 1,024 03-Sep Malta - Piraeus - Santorini - Heraklion - Rhodes - Malta € 1,024 10-Sep Malta - Dubrovnik - Rovinj - Venice - Split - Malta € 1,024 17-Sep Malta - Civitavecchia - Livorno - Olbia - Naples - Malta € 999 24-Sep Malta - Piraeus - Chania - Katakolon - Zakynthos - Malta € 1,024 01-Oct Malta - Zadar - Venice - Split - Kotor - Malta € 768 MATTHEW AGIUS A man has been fined just €300 after he was found guilty of in- sulting and physically attacking his ex-wife, following a relent- less campaign of harassment and intimidation spanning years. In a judgment handed down on 5 July, husband AB* was found guilty of making insults and threats which exceeded the limits of provocation, attacking the woman and slightly injur- ing her, as well as damaging her property in December 2018. He was handed a €300 fine by magistrate Astrid May Grima. But his victim says the re- markably low sentence was par for the course. Speaking to MaltaToday, the wife CD* al- leged that the police "are cover- ing up" for the man, who is the subject of numerous restrain- ing orders preventing him from approaching the woman. Since his conviction, she says, he has already tried to contact her once. CD had filed many police re- ports against her ex-husband, she says, "but the magistrate never saw the reports I was filing because the Inspector didn't present her with them." When she went to the police to obtain a copy of her reports, they were given to her with all the text blacked out, she said, pointing to photos which ap- pear to show heavily redacted reports. Sources involved in the police investigation claim the wom- an's reports all had "very simi- lar characteristics" and that this caused them to suspect that they were not true. "Before you arraign someone, you mustn't have doubts and in this case it was just sight- ings," said a source, giving an example of a time that AB had simply given way to the woman on a zebra crossing on one oc- casion. "When the trouble started, 11 years ago, I had no idea what to do. I was alone with a baby," CD said, adding that she had spent time living in a domestic violence shelter before mov- ing into rented accommoda- tion. "They [the police] had the evidence but they didn't want to write it down. They never spoke to witnesses," said the woman, not even when AB had been aggressive to her in the presence of a social worker and the police themselves. "He told people that I had run away with the kids," CD said. "He tried to choke me. If my son hadn't shouted at him, I would be dead." CD also said that she found no police report number related to many of these incidents. "Every report I filed disappeared," she said, detailing her various re- ports of the incidents. "It's my 7th report [of a breach of the protection order] in four months. He always claims to have made a mistake, but really, how many times can you make the same mistake?" She had left home for a do- mestic violence shelter on 10 December and obtained a pro- tection order on 22 Feb, but claims that she is still seeing him near her son's school every day. "At least three times a week we see him." Despite her fre- quent reporting, the police had not checked CCTV and had not asked for the names of any wit- nesses, said the woman. "The Inspector said that he needs to hurt me badly before he's going to take action. 'Un- less he hurts you bad, don't come to make a report,'" CD said. Despite all she had gone through, the woman is philo- sophical. "I want him to get help because even if he goes to prison, two years later, he'll be out and then… God help us. A friendship is a friendship but when the police have a duty to protect the people, you do your job." *Names have been anonymised to protect people's identities Police ignoring woman's domestic abuse reports