Appeal upheld

A man originally given a two-week jail term suspended for a year for threatening his wife yesterday had his punishment altered on appeal to a Lm25 fine. Charles Cassar was found guilty of threatening his estranged wife Sylvia over the phone on...

A man originally given a two-week jail term suspended for a year for threatening his wife yesterday had his punishment altered on appeal to a Lm25 fine.

Charles Cassar was found guilty of threatening his estranged wife Sylvia over the phone on September 9 and 10, 2002.

But Cassar appealed, claiming that he had been found guilty of a contravention and the law stated that a contravention was punishable by detention, fine, reprimand or admonition and not by imprisonment.

Mr Justice Joseph Galea Debono upheld the appeal and altered the suspended jail term to a fine.

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