Updated | Outrage as dead woman is summoned as witness for third time

A French-Canadian man, who is facing charges over the involuntary death of his wife, expressed disbelief at the Attorney General's repeated blunder of summoning the dead woman for the third consecutive time.

The blunder was made, despite Magistrate Edwina Grima calling  on the Attorney General to correct the "terrible mistake" of summoning 63 year-old Renèe Pelland to the witness stand.

But the Attorney General's Office said in a statement issued tonight, that it was not responsible for any blunder, because it did not summon the deceased Renee Pelland for this morning's sitting.

Pelland was summoned to take the witness stand against her husband, Jean Guy Legendre, 67, from Quebec, Canada, who is accused of causing her involuntary death in a three-car collision on the outskirts of Mdina last year.

Legendre, a chairman of a company specialising in quality control, was on holiday in Malta with his wife, 63-year-old Renèe Pelland, and was driving down Triq l-Infetti, near Mdina.

The Chevrolet Kalos he was driving crashed into a BMW Z3 sports car, driven by 26-year-old Clayton James Fenech, who was also charged in court.

Defence lawyer Stefano Filletti who is appearing for Legendre said that he was outraged at the insensitivity of the Attorney General's Office, who not once but three times summoned his client's dead wife to the witness stand.

Legendre is currently on bail against a personal guarantee of €10,000 and a deposit of €2,000, provided that he lived at his son's house in St Julian's.