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WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT WEDNESDAY EDITION €1.00 WEDNESDAY • 9 JULY 2025 • ISSUE 948 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY JULIA DOWLING jdowling@mediatoday.com.mt SLIEMA DOUBLE MURDER: Muka gets life, Dragomanski is imprisoned for 40 years DANIEL Muka was sentenced to life imprisonment on Tues- day morning after the jury found him guilty of murdering Christian Pandolfino and Ivor Maciejowski in their home in Sliema in August 2020. Victor Dragomanski, his ac- complice, was sentenced to a total of 40 years imprison- ment. Muka's sentence includes a total of six terms of solitary confinement. The court will retain his €10,000 bail deposit and a €24,000 in court fees. On Tuesday morning, judge Natasha Galea Sciberras dictat- ed the counts of which the two men were found guilty, before reading out the final sentenc- ing. Daniel Muka was original- ly convicted of murdering Christian Pandolfino and Ivor Maciejowski, while his accom- plice, Victor Dragomanski, was acquitted of wilful homicide. CONTINUES ON PAGE 2 Daniel Muka was sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday morning over the murder of of Christian Pondolfino and Ivor Maciejowski following a botched holdup in 2020 (Photo: MaltaToday) KARL AZZOPARDI kazzopardi@mediatoday.com.mt Electricity demand shoots up by 100MW MALTA'S electricity grid reached a peak load of 598MW on 7 July, a 100MW increase when compared to the same period last year. "Enemalta has documented this demand amidst Europe's first significant heatwave of the summer and the genera- tion sources are adequately satisfying the demand. Peak electricity grid load is the greatest amount of energy dis- tributed through the national electricity network to Ene- malta's customers at any one time," an Enemalta spokesper- son told MaltaToday. CONTINUES ON PAGE 5