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Newspaper post YOUR FIRST READ AND FIRST CLICK OF THE DAY WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT maltatoday SUNDAY • 30 NOVEMBER 2014 • ISSUE 786 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY MIRIAM DALLI AND JOHN PISANI AN internal police investigation has been launched into the deletion from a police report of details of the arrest of Scotsman Stephen Smith and the result of a breathalyser test he took. The deletions were made from the original computer record. The serious shortcoming intro- duces a new twist into the saga which has enveloped the serious incident in which the Scotsman was involved when his vehicle was shot at and hit twice by home affairs minister Manuel Mal- lia's security driver on the evening of Wednesday, 19 November. For one, it is expected to put more pressure on the police force. The Opposition has repeatedly claimed that a cover-up was under- way on the night that the government claimed that security driver Paul Shee- han fired two "warning shots" in the air, and has put pressure on Joseph Muscat to sack his minister. How the new twist will affect the minister's fortunes is yet to be seen. MaltaToday is reliably informed that an internal investigation is underway into the deletion of the details from the report. Scotsman's arrest report is deleted PAGE 7 MEET THE GEEKS! COMIC CON GETS UNDERWAY AT ST JAMES CAVALIER PAGES 18-19 Sack Mallia say 39%, but 33% support embattled minister PHOTOGRAPH BY RAY ATTARD TAXMAN WANTS BLOGGER CARUANA GALIZIA TO PAY VAT ON €560,000 IN UNDECLARED REVENUES MALTATODAY SURVEY MORE: HOW DID THE BUDGET AFFECT YOU? FULL DATA PAGES 6-7 A relative majority of respond- ents (39%) want Home Affairs Minister Manuel Mallia to re- sign after last week's shooting incident involving the min- ister's driver. But 33% do not want him to resign while 25% are undecided. Mallia's position is deemed untenable not just by an over- whelming majority of PN voters (82%) but also by a substantial number of Labour voters (21%) and switchers (53%). PAGE 8 PAGE 4 Internal investigation launched after police discover crucial extracts were deleted from police report confi rming Stephen Smith was driving under the infl uence EXCLUSIVE €1.20 YOUR FIRST READ AND FIRST CLICK OF THE DAY YOUR FIRST READ AND FIRST CLICK OF THE DAY maltatoday PAGE 8 'Teachers living in fear over false child abuse allegations'