Jordan Azzopardi gets seven months in jail for 2015 assault
Alleged drug kingpin Jordan Azzopardi has been given a seven-month jail term for a 2015 assault that left a man grievously injured.
The man was hunted down, beaten up in public and had his clothes ripped apart before he finally managed to get away, bruised and battered, before he could be dragged into Azzopardi’s car.
Azzopardi – who is currently out on bail while he awaits trial for separate charges related running a large-scale drug trafficking operation, money laundering and counterfeit cash – initially pleaded not guilty to charges.
He stuck to that not guilty plea for 33 court sittings, but five years after he was first arraigned in the case, he changed his plea and registered an admission.
This was not “a simple fight between friends which escalated, but a premeditated and planned attack,” observed Magistrate Nadine Lia when delivering judgment upon Azzopardi’s own admission.
It noted that a great deal of work and expenses had been undertaken since the arraignment. Moreover, through all that time Azzopardi had never shown remorse nor apologized to the victims.
Nor was any documentary evidence produced to shed light upon Azzopardi’s psychiatric health at the time of the...