A 23-year-old man was fined €2,000 after a client seated on a "crazy sofa" being towed across Hondoq ir-Rummien was injured and suffered facial disfigurement.
The case dates to July 2012, when Jonathan Grech was driving a boat to which the crazy sofa was attached. The crazy sofa overturned, plunging the victim and two other clients into the sea. The client bumped his head, breaking his cheekbone and brow bone.
The accused failed to observe regulations which dictated that another person should have been present to assist him and that the boat should at least have been equipped with mirrors so that he could monitor was was happening.
The accused did not take any preventive measures whatsoever to prevent the incident from occurring, the court ruled.
Magistrate Joe Mifsud presided over the case while Inspector Frank Anthony Tabone prosecuted.