Degiorgio brothers demand retrial, weeks after pleading guilty to Daphne murder

Alfred and George Degiorgio have filed a court appeal demanding a retrial, just over a fortnight after pleading guilty to the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

The brothers were each sentenced to 40 years for their part in the car bomb that killed the journalist outside her home on October 2017. But in a bizarre development on Thursday, the convicted killers filed an appeal application requesting that their trial by jury begin again.

Lawyers Noel Bianco and Leslie Cuschieri signed the application to the Court of Criminal appeal. On the day that their trial began, on October 14, the brothers agreed to plead guilty in exchange for more lenient sentences. More to follow