Melvin Theuma has been taken out of intensive care and is now being treated in an ENT ward at Mater Dei Hospital, the police said on Monday. His condition remains stable.

Theuma, the self-confessed middleman in the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder, suffered life-threatening knife wounds to his throat, torso and a wrist on Tuesday night.

Police have said that they believe Theuma harmed himself, citing evidence from the scene as well as Theuma's own indications to the officer who found him lying on the floor of the Swieqi apartment he was living in. 

Last week, Times of Malta reported how Theuma wrote a note in hospital saying he stabbed himself multiple times out of remorse and because his evidence in the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia was being doubted.

He indicated to a magistrate there was no third-party involvement in the incident.

 

 

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