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MINISTERU GĦALL-AKKOMODAZZ JONI SOĊ JALI U AFFORDABBLI GVERN TA' MALTA MATTHEW AGIUS RODERICK Cassar, who stands charged with murder after shoot- ing his wife, Bernice, dead last November, had started to accuse her of being unfaithful in the weeks before, in the midst of a series of violent incidents, a court has heard. The victim's aunt Sylvana Dar- manin testified as the compila- tion of evidence continued before Magistrate Joe Mifsud on Tues- day. "Besides being her aunt, I was like a mother to her. She was like the daughter I never had, she used to respect me so much," the woman said. In testimony lasting nearly two and a half hours, Darmanin said that before her murder Bernice had confided in her, saying that the accused had started to accuse her of being unfaithful. On one occasion, she had herself heard the accused telling Bernice this. On that occasion, the witness had intervened, vouching for Bernice. The first time she noticed that Cassar had been violent towards his wife was on New Year's Day 2022, said the witness. Darmanin had made a video call to Bernice, Roderick and the children, that day. "The daughter, four years old, answered crying her eyes out. I couldn't make out what she was saying. Bernice entered the frame and told me that she would explain what happened later." The witness had immedi- ately called her husband and told him to go to their house because something was not right. Upon arriving there, he had found Ber- nice cleaning up pieces of plates that the accused had allegedly smashed after an argument. The domestic situation had de- teriorated after that day, Darma- nin said. "They were afraid of the ac- cused, who wanted to go out with his friends. She didn't want him to do this, she was a family wom- an... the children were her prior- ity." Darmanin gave an account of other violent incidents that Bernice had told her about. On Mother's Day 2022, Roderick Cassar had left the house in the morning and returned the next morning. "It was a Sunday. He returned at around 6am, wak- ing up the children, telling them that they were going to Gozo." When Bernice had replied that she wasn't going to go, the ac- cused had reacted with exagger- ated violence, punching her in the face and threatening her with a knife. "He was pulling her hair and punching her in front of his brother," said the witness. He had then left for Gozo with one of the children. The witness also told the court about another violent domestic incident that had happened later that year, on Maundy Thursday. That night Darmanin had wait- ed together with Bernice for the accused to return, adding that she had eventually gone home at 1 am because she had work the next day. The next morning, Bernice had called her aunt to tell her that Roderick had returned home at 4am, slapping Bernice in the face when she had rebuked him for staying out so late. On another occasion, the ac- cused had flown into a rage, promising to "get his revenge" on his wife, after she had failed to take the couple's children to her parent's house to visit his parents. She had explained to him that this was because his father had COVID-19 at the time. On 13 November, the accused had tried to stop his wife and aunt from taking the children out for a trip, reaching into her car and angrily demanding that she hand him her mobile phone. He had told his son that he (Roder- ick) would be in prison the fol- lowing week. A police officer turned up and offered to escort them to the po- lice headquarters, but Bernice did not want to go there with her children present. Whilst she had been driving to Żebbuġ to drop off the children, Bernice told her aunt that "the next thing he is go- ing to do is kill me." "She told us that he was going to kill her and he did," said the witness. Hate speech conviction for hunter over post on Clint Camilleri's Facebook page A man has been handed a sus- pended six month prison sen- tence and a €3,000 fine for in- citing violence against BirdLife volunteers on social media. Stephen Micallef was ar- raigned before Magistrate Ian Farrugia earlier today charged with inciting hatred and vi- olence in connection with a Facebook comment in which he suggested "giving them [BLM volunteers] a good beating." Mi- callef's comment was a reaction to a social media post uploaded by Minister Clint Camilleri on his Facebook page on 13 April 2022. The Minister's post had stat- ed that he was asking the State Advocate to request the courts to urgently hear the case con- testing a prohibitory injunction suspending the opening of the Spring Hunting season. This was because the date initially set by the Court for the case to begin was after the opening date of the Spring Hunting Season. Micallef was found guilty and sentenced to six months of imprisonment, suspended for three years together with a fine of €3,000. Inspector Dorianne Tabone prosecuted. Lawyer Edmond Cuschieri ap- peared for the defendant. 'She told us that he was going to kill her and he did' - Bernice Cassar's aunt