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Court Convicts Two Men for Supplying Bomb That Killed Daphne Caruana Galizia

Prosecutors are seeking life sentences at a sentencing hearing scheduled next week for the two men

FILE - Flowers and a candle lie in front of a portrait of slain investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia during a vigil outside the law courts in Valletta, Malta, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Jonathan Borg, File)
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Overview

  • A Maltese jury found Robert Agius and Jamie Vella guilty of supplying the military-grade explosives used to kill investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in October 2017.
  • Prosecutors have requested life sentences for both men at a hearing set for early next week.
  • Brothers George and Alfred Degiorgio received 40-year prison terms for carrying out the car bombing while key witness Vincent Muscat served a reduced 15-year sentence in exchange for testimony.
  • Prominent businessman Yorgen Fenech remains out on bail and awaits trial on charges of orchestrating the assassination.
  • Caruana Galizia’s family said the verdict brings them a step closer to justice but cautioned that the institutional failures enabling her murder remain unaddressed.