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5 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 12 FEBRUARY 2020 NEWS Senior Technical Officer - ICT • A-level in ICT or a relevant recognize qualification in ICT at MQF level 4 or higher • Able to speak in both Maltese and English • One (1) year of experience in ICT systems support administration. Job Title: Qualifications: Experience: JOB VACANCY MAIN JOB PURPOSE: Responsible and oversee the day to day running of the Computers, Telephone Network Infrastructure and Network services and to ensure that they function smoothly. The job holder will be supervising the available resources (human, material and systems) in the diagnosing, maintaining and repairing, digital equipment and / or any ICT related Hardware pertaining to Lands Authority related parties and reporting status and analysis. Jobsplus permit no. 33/2020 Closing Date: 17th February 2020 Apply at: hr.la@landsauthority.org.mt https://landsauthority.org.mt/about-us/careers/ MATTHEW AGIUS A magistrate has heard an eye- witness account of the horrif- ic stabbing in Zabbar which claimed the life of Chantelle Chetcuti from a passerby. Chetcuti died of injuries she sus- tained after she was stabbed in the head, allegedly by her ex-partner Justin Borg, who stands accused of her homicide. Chetcuti's friend, Silvan Medi- na testified he had been at the St. Patrick's football club with Chet- cuti, he said. "It was a Sunday, two weeks ago. At around 5 or 6 pm myself and Chantelle had gone to the St. Pat- rick's club. There was a certain Dillon and Chantelle said that if he was there then Justin would know [that she was there]. Sure enough Justin arrived shortly af- terwards and tried to talk to her. But she didn't want to," contin- ued the witness. He had met Chantelle at the club at around 3pm and then later returned there around 5 or 6pm. He recalled how Justin Borg had asked him whether he could speak to Chantelle and the wit- ness had replied that he didn't want to get in between the for- mer couple. He had seen Borg come in and then Chetcuti went outside after she and Medina finished their game of billiards; Borg followed her outside. Then someone came running in saying she had been stabbed, Medina recalled. "She had started ignoring him and moved around the billiard table, playing the game. He followed her around the table, asking her to speak with him. Then we sat down and she went outside. There was no shouting, he said. They were outside for maybe two minutes before the passer-by came in screaming." He hadn't seen Borg, who was alone, grab anything. "She was on the ground outside with a knife in her head, shaking. I went to the police station straight away." Outside, Borg had disappeared, recalled the witness. "I went to the police station and was inter- rogated." A second witness, a police of- ficer who had been on a night shift duty at the local police sta- tion on February 2 told the court that at around 8:20pm, Justin Borg had informed him that he had stabbed his girlfriend. "I called the control room and the RIU arrived soon after. He had blood on his shirt and hands. He looked like he was about to cry." He indicated the accused in the dock, explaining that Borg's hand had been bleeding from a cut. Passer-by finds body The third witness, a passer-by, had been taking his children home to Zabbar when he saw the incident unfold in his rear-view mirror. "As I passed the St Patricks foot- ball club, on the pavement I see a man and a woman… the man hitting her and the woman fall- ing to the ground. I looked in the mirror and saw her falling to the ground and the man waving his hands. I thought he had punched her and I couldn't just drive on. I told the kids to stay in the car as the woman had fallen over. The man crossed the road towards the church, got in his car and left. "I saw the woman with a knife stuck in her head, her arm shak- ing… I ran into the club. I hadn't grasped the severity of the inci- dent until that moment." The blows he saw looked like roundhouse punches, he said, adding that before the blows, he hadn't seen any signs of agitation. He couldn't make out the col- our of the man's vehicle, he said. "It was dark." "I found the woman on the floor. Her hair partially obscuring her face. The knife handle was sticking out of her temple. I saw her shaking, face down on the pavement. Her head on one of her hands. I took the children to their mother in a hurry and then returned and gave a statement to the police." Inspector Joanna Piscopo from Zabbar told magistrate Rachel Montebello that two small sa- chets of suspected drugs were found in the accused man's pos- session after his arrest. There were several CCTV cameras cov- ering the area, she confirmed to the court. The case continues on 24 Feb- ruary. Lawyers Franco Debono, Mari- on Camilleri and Francesca Zarb are defence counsel to Borg. In- spector Kurt Zahra is prosecut- ing. Eyewitness saw murder victim on the ground, shaking, with knife inside her temple Chantelle Chetcuti murder Justin Borg