The following are the main stories in Friday’s newspapers.

Times of Malta leads with middleman Melvin Theuma’s statement in court that accused Yorgen Fenech had told him that a mobile phone retrieved from the seabed after the arrests of three suspected hitmen charged with the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia contained just one number, belonging to former minister Chris Cardona. In another story, the newspaper says the acting police commissioner has issued an internal call for applications for motorcyclists to join its now-depleted traffic section.

The Malta Independent says the European Court of Human Rights has ordered the government to pay €500,000 to a family over properties in Valletta.

In-Nazzjon said that police arrests have gone up to 40.

L-Orizzont interviews the new domestic violence commissioner Audrey Friggieri.