Acquitted of participating in 2001 ‘Shopwise’ hold-up
A fingerprint found on a stapler taken from a supermarket during a hold-up in 2001, and found inside the alleged getaway car, was not enough evidence for a Court to convict a man of complicity in the heist.
11 December 2012, 12:00am
Karl Stagno-Navarra
Karl Stagno-Navarra
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Magistrate Camilleri said that the case was all based on circumstantial evidence
Sebastian Farrugia, 35 of Qormi walked free this morning, after he was cleared by Magistrate Neville Camilleri of participating in an armed hold-up on Shopwise Supermarket in Qormi on August 2, 2001.
In handing judgement. Magistrate Camilleri said that the case was all based on 'circumstantial evidence' which although may be important to a case, it was quite a different story in Farrugia's case.
He said that while the supermarket owner could not remember whether a stapler had gone missing during the heist, in which more than Lm1,000 in cash had been taken from the tills, one could not convict Farrugia for having a fingerpring on a stapler, which was found inside the alleged getaway-car, a Toyota Land Cruiser.
