Justin Haber has resigned from the Floriana local council after a court convicted him for sending a threatening message to his sister.

“After a meeting with PL deputy leader Alex Agius Saliba, I have decided to resign from the Floriana local council,” Haber announced.

“I am doing this out of a sense of respect and loyalty to the Labour Party and those who elected me last June.”

Haber, a former Malta international goalie, was recently handed a restraining order by the courts after he sent his sister Pearl Vella Haber a voice note threatening to behead her.

This was after Vella Haber decided to cut off all contact with her family for personal reasons.