As I stood behind the law courts on Saturday, watching two police vans driving out, first, Brian Tonna and Karl Cini and, then, Keith Schembri and all the wretched company that went along with him, all I could feel was a sense of deep sadness. Sadness at the fact that, just in front of that building, is a makeshift monument to a woman who was brutally murdered and, yet, we are still far from bringing the minds behind her assassination to justice. I could not help but think of Al Capone, who was never jailed for all the atrocious crimes he commanded but only because he evaded his taxes. I was also thinking of all the families whose lives were ruined because of these people’s alleged wicked deals – let us not forget all the workers who lost their jobs with the Allied Group after Schembri’s ‘discounted’ (!!) sale of machinery crippled the organisation financially. I could not help but wonder how many other families, who we do not (yet) know about, were also financially crippled by this alleged bunch of crooks. There is no sense of triumph in what I say but deep disappointment at the fact that my once beautiful country has been repeatedly cheated and spoilt by unscrupulous persons...