Keith Schembri phone data 'not relevant' to murder probe, police chief says

Data analysed from one of Keith Schembri’s phones has no relevance to the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder investigation, the police commissioner has informed the courts.   On Monday, alleged murder conspirator Yorgen Fenech filed an application through his lawyers to be given access to data recovered from Schembri’s mobile phone, saying it contained essential information to back up his claims of innocence.   In a reply filed on Tuesday afternoon, the office of the Attorney General quotes police commissioner Angelo Gafà who confirmed that an ongoing magisterial inquiry had secured mobile phone data belonging to Schembri.  However, from the information analysed so far, there is nothing of any relevance to the 2017 homicide of the journalist, the reply says. It describes Fenech’s request as vexatious, and intended to prolong the process with the aim of going on a “fishing expedition”.   The AG called on Fenech to prove his claim that the police have an extraction of Schembri’s entire phone data and that this contains information that can confirm his claims.  The application filed by Fenech forms part of constitutional proceedings seeking to have lead investigator superintendent Keith...