Yorgen Fenech’s lawyers say original recordings needed in challenge proceedings

Lawyers representing businessman Yorgen Fenech have insisted in court that  recordings presented in criminal proceedings against Melvin Theuma’s relatives are essential in their challenge to have Theuma prosecuted for perjury.

Fenech, who stands accused of complicity in the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, claims that police failed to take criminal action against Theuma, the self-confessed murder plot middleman, over “half truths” and “blatant lies” when testifying about the murder.

His lawyers argue that every reference to their client’s alleged involvement in the 2017 murder plot was a “total fabrication.”

A list of testimonies and voice recordings to be presented by the court registrar was included in the footnotes to their application.

The lawyers insisted that they need original voice recordings which were apparently exhibited in separate money laundering proceedings against Theuma’s relatives.

All recordings presented in proceedings against Fenech were a copy of those originals, argued defence lawyer Charles Mercieca.

Unless the police commissioner exempted them from putting forward the original evidence as the best evidence, the only way Fenech could prove such...