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10 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 25 AUGUST 2019 COURT NOTICE The Registrar, Civil Courts and Tribunals notifies that the First Hall of the Civil Court ordered the sale by Judicial Auction of the following property to be held in room numbered 78, nearby the Courts Archives, Level -1, Courts of Justice, Republic Street, Valletta. Date Time Judicial Sale No Property 03 rd September, 2019 11.00am 30/16 - AZ Axiaq Paul (ID 372861M) vs Mangion Charles (ID 496273M) The undivided half of ground floor maisonette numbered 9 previously numbered 34 in Triq tal-Karmnu, Fgura underlying the first floor maisonette third party property as further described in the acts of Notary Carmel Mangion dated 27.05.2013, free and unencumbered, valued at €90,000. 05 th September, 2019 10.30am 22/17 - AZ Suban Theresa (ID 295040M) vs Schembri Mario (ID 52660M) et Field known as 'Ta Buqana', limits of Rabat valued in an agricultural zone outside the development zone, with a total approximate of 2414 metre square, with access from countryside alley from a principal road; Triq Bubana. The field is longitudinal shaped with breadth of approxiamate 26.9 metre and length of approxiamate 98.5 metre with a lease of €2.00 per year and valued €22,100. 05 th September, 2019 11.00am 34/18 - AZ HSBC Bank Malta plc (C3177) vs Avv Yanika Bugeja et noe Property numbered 31 and the garage annexed to it numbered 30, in Triq il-Ward, Zurrieq, free and unencumbered as described in the public contract in the acts of Notary Joseph Raphael Darmanin dated 17th March, 1999 and valued €390,000. 05 th September, 2019 11.30am 84/16 - EGL HSBC Bank Malta plc (C3177) vs Avantgarde Holdings Ltd (C27163) Showroom unnamed and unnumbered previously known as 'Il-Gorna' or 'Il- Kenn' in Triq Dun Karm Psaila, Birkirkara, bounded on the South by the said street where there is the facade, from North, East and West by property of George Schembri or his successors in title or any correct boundaries, including its airspace, free and unencumbered valued at € 490,000. 10 th September, 2019 10.30am 77/16 - JGL Auto Sales Limited (C491) vs Portelli Pauline (ID42180M) et Property named 'Redentur', in Sqaq il- Ġerrejja, limits of Triq is-Serkin, Marsa, free and unencumbered valued at €240,000. 10 th September, 2019 11.00am 34/17 - JGL Barclays Bank plc (C26167) vs Vella John Mary (ID615558M) et Tenement numbered 1, in Triq il-Karmnu, corner with Triq Ħal Far, Birzebbuga', bounded West with Triq il-Karmnu, North with Triq Hal-Far and East with an unnamed public alley, free and unencumbered from any ground rents and burdens, by contract in the acts of Notary Gerard Spiteri Maempel dated 28th June, 2003, valued at € 410,000. Apartments internally numbered 5, 6, 7 and 8, in a block named 'Morning Mist Court' in Triq Massimiljanu Kolbe, Il-Qawra, San Pawl il-Baħar, bounded on the South West by a new street in Triq San Timotju, on the North East by property of Rite Mix (Gatt Bros.) Limited or their successors in title and on the NorthWest by property of successors in title of Devlands Limited, as subject to their share of annual and perpetual ground rent of Eur 83.21. This block of apartments was built on two divided portions and adjoining building site forming part of a field in Qawra, known as "Ta' Cassia", as per contract in the acts of Notary Gerard Spiteri Maempel, dated 26th October, 2002, valued at €965,000. 10 th September, 2019 11.30am 42/19 - AZ Gifford Judith (ID789146M) vs Perkins Michael (ID526342M) The premises named 'Villino Verde' situated in Triq Valletta, Mosta, with its own airspace, overlaying third party property, including garage in the ground floor level as well as an landing leading to the main door of the villa which is situated on the first floor, subject to annual and perpetual ground rent of €40.18, bounded on the North by Triq Valletta, to the East by property of Carmelo ta' Santa Lucija sive Ta' Santa Anastasja" and bounded on East by the said street, with North West by Government property or his successors in title and to the South by property of Josephine Cefai or her successors in title or any other correct boundaries, as well as its common parts pro indiviso according to Article 6 of Chapter 398 of the Laws of Malta and is valued €142,500 19 th September, 2019 11.00am 13/19 - JGL Bank of Valletta plc (C2833) vs Av. Dr. Joseph Bonnici et noe Flat internally marked by number 1 in block letter "D" with the external door numbered 6, in the Government Housing Estate, Vjal il-Haddiem gja Ghajn Qajjied, limits of Rabat, Malta which block is bounded by all sides with public spaces property of the Government/Housing Authority. The flat is situated in the corner on street level overlying other third parties apartments with main access from Vjal il-Haddiem gja Ghajn Qajjed and with secondary access from Triq ir-Rumani. The said flat includes proportionate share of the entrance door, hallway, stairs, stairwell and the drainage system and the owner of the flat has the right to install the water tank and television aerial on the roof of the said block. Also including with the said flat is the right of use of the roof at the highest level of the block, however the Government reserves the property rights in his favour to build other floor levels and use common area parts and services, as well as to pass the needed communications from the shafts of the said block or according to other needs, and is valued at €150,000 24 th September, 2019 11.30am 104/98 - AZ Azzopardi Joseph et pro et noe vs Zammit Raymond Dr noe et The tenements numbered from 245 till 252 in Triq San Pawl, San Pawl il-Baħar valued together at €550,000. The tenements numbered 245,246 and 247 situated in higher open air entry level from the street and accessible through an open staircase, the tenement numbered 245 consists of a ground floor underlying the first floor numbered 246, the tenement numbered 246 consists of first floor overlying the ground floor numbered 245 and the tenement numbered 247 is overlying the tenements numbered 248 and 249 as well as small part of tenement numbered 250. The tenement numbered 248 is accessible from a street and partially underlies tenement numbered 247. The tenement numbered 249 is accessible from a street and partially underlies on the other part of tenement numbered 247. The tenement 250 consists of a ground floor overlies almost totally tenement numbered 251, with entrance on the ground floor underlies a small part tenement numbered 247. The tenement numbered 251 is a groundfloor tenement underlying the first floor number 250. The tenement 252 consists of a house on two floor originally from a adjacent room, used a sitting room that had another door numbered 253 in the street and was change to a window. 26 th September, 2019 11.00am 42/18 - AZ HSBC Bank Malta plc (C3177) vs Dr Leontine Calleja et noe The apartment internally marked number 3 forming part from a block of six apartments without official number called Rose Flats, Triq Anetto Caruana, previously new road with access from Triq it-Turisti, Bugibba, San Pawl il-Bahar, which apartment is situated on the second floor level, together with the undivided share pro rata of the common area that includes the roof and the drainage system, free and unencumbered and valued at €130,000 Further details can be obtained from the website: https://ecourts.gov.mt/onlineservices/JudicialSales The bidders taking part in the auction must present their identity card Gaetana Aquilina For the Registrar of Civil Courts and Tribunals DAVID HUDSON THE Rabat Red House that served as a secret gay brothel attended by Lord Mountbat- ten exists no more with the only remnant being a founda- tion rock. The building was mentioned in a yet to be published biog- raphy of Lord Mountbatten and his wife Edwina by An- drew Lownie, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Although Lownie's inves- tigation sheds little light on where the house is, research undertaken by MaltaToday points to a site in Rabat, just off the Roman Villa. The building is no longer there and the only remnants of the Red House appear to be a red foundation rock and the name of the street, Red Tower Street. Research for the biography unveils that the decorated war hero and uncle to Prince Philip, the Duke of Edin- burgh, used to frequent a gay brothel in Rabat during his time in Malta between 1950 and 1954. Lownie describes this as the Red House, and quoting his source, Lownie told MaltaTo- day that The Red House func- tioned as "an upmarket gay brothel used by senior naval officers." He said that Lord Mount- batten's former chauffeur in Malta, now in his nineties, said that Mountbatten used his own personal car to get to the Rabat brothel. The driver, Ron Perks, was once asked by Mountbat- ten to take him to this fabled house and he had acceded to the request. "I found [the driver] from an interview in a newspaper cut- ting in East Anglia… and went to see him. During the course of the interview, he decided to tell me these things. He's a very nice, serious, old school soldier," Lownie said. "It was an isolated, baronial- style building with a flat roof. One day as we were driving along, Mountbatten asked if I knew the Red House. I said I did and he asked if I would take him there, which I did. I never dropped him there, but he had his own car which he used often. He wouldn't have asked me for nothing. I didn't know what it was and only learnt after I came out of the service that it was an upmar- ket gay brothel used by senior naval officers. You're taught to keep out of trouble in the Navy and I've never said a word about the incident until now," Perks told Lownie. In a chapter of Lownie's book called 'Rumours', the biographer retells stories he heard about Mountbatten's exploits in Malta. "People told me stories about [Mountbatten] being invited on picnics in Malta and it was clearly a sexual invitation. There was also an affair with a woman in Malta but which was covered up. I wasn't able to get anyone to speak on record about it. I think most of them didn't want to say anything because of their loyalty towards him," Lownie said. Back in May 2018, Lownie used the Times of Malta to ask for any knowledge of The Red House by publishing a Lord Mountbatten's dirty laundry at the elusive Red House is given an airing by the historian Andrew Lownie in a revealing new book. But did the elusive Red House brothel truly exist in Rabat? MOUNTBATTEN'S MYSTERY IN Red foundations: these Rabat apartments have probably been built over the alleged former brothel known as 'the Red House'