A former police sergeant has been fined €10,000 for leaking police information involving Adrian Delia to Daphne Caruana Galizia.
A court was told that an investigation was launched by the police after a blog by the late journalist under the headline ‘Nationalist Party leadership contender Adrian Delia replies to questions about anonymous report to the police’ included a photo of a police report. The blog was uploaded on August 16, 2017.
As part of their investigations, the police established who had sought information from PIRS, the National Police System.
It was found that then-sergeant Roderick Sammut, stationed at Qormi, had accessed the system four times between June 14 and August 13, 2017, and searched for particulars about Dr Delia.
Two screenshots of a police report were discovered among the ‘sent’ items on the former sergeant’s WhatsApp after his mobile phone was examined.
One of those pictures was identical to the one posted by Caruana Galizia although it was not determined whether any calls or messages had ever been exchanged between the accused and Ms Caruana Galizia, the court was told.
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