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WEDNESDAY • 1 JUNE 2022 • ISSUE 796 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY
EDITORIAL • PAGE 11
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Four injured after minivan
collides with fuel bowser
in Victoria, Gozo
'Topo'
silence
blamed
on State
inaction
MATTHEW AGIUS
SELF-CONFESSED bank robber
Daren Debono had shown willing-
ness to uphold his part of his plea
deal, but had been let down by the
State's failure to place his family in
witness protection, his lawyer has
told a judge this morning.
Mr. Justice Aaron Bugeja heard
submissions by the prosecution
and defence on Tuesday morning,
as Debono's appeal against a pris-
on sentence which he was hand-
ed for breaching a plea-bargain-
ing agreement with the Attorney
General, continued.
Debono's lawyers had filed the
appeal in February this year, after
the bank robber was jailed for six
months and fined €4,600 for refus-
Four people from the black minivan had to be taken to hospital for treatment (Photo- Chris Mangion)
