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EDITORIAL - PAGE 11
WEDNESDAY • 25 SEPTEMBER 2013 • ISSUE 333 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY
SEX ABUSE: HORRIFIC EVIDENCE
LANDS FATHER IN JAIL
CHRIS MANGION
A 49-year-old man from Cospicua
was jailed for six years after being
found guilty of defilement and violently and indecently assaulting his
15-year-old daughter. At the time
of the abuse, the girl's parents had
legally separated, and a court order
precluded the father from seeing
his daughter.
The court heard that from the age
of 11, the daughter was touched and
fondled by her father while she lay
on his bed. These acts went on for
two years; on other occasions, the
father used a vibrator on his child
and made her watch pornographic
films. The court heard that he insisted that she scrub him in the
shower and that he repeatedly undressed her and performed oral sex
on her.
The court sentence went so far as
to describe the graphic details of
the abuse.
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Angela takes Christian
Democrats to new heights
Former Labour MP may
get his hotel after all
Former Labour MP John Dalli was previously refused a hotel permit in M'xlokk area earmarked
for environmentally friendly tourist development in a new policy being drafted by MEPA
THE Malta Environment and
Planning Authority has been
instructed by the government
to draft a new planning policy
regulating tourism development
in an area where 15 years ago it
refused an application for the development of a three-storey hotel
presented by former Labour MP
John Dalli. In 1998 MEPA refused an application for the construction of a three-storey hotel,
as this contravened policies en-
shrined in a 1995 local plan regulating development in M'xlokk.
No other applications for hotels
have been submitted in the area
covered the new policy currently
being drafted.
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Snooker match fixing
related to 2008 Malta Cup
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JAMES DEBONO
