Malta Court Rejects Prisoner’s Appeal After Setting His Own Cell On Fire
Malta’s Court of Appeal recently rejected an appeal from a prisoner who was charged with setting his own cell on fire in the Kordin Correctional Facility two years ago.
Back in February 2021, the prisoner tried to take his own life by setting fire to his cell and was sentenced to ten months in prison after he admitted his guilt.
His lawyer appealed the sentence, claiming that the prisoner was kept in his cell for 23 hours a day, beaten by prison officers that broke his nose and refused to give him medical assistance.
Additionally, they claimed, no access to a lawyer was given when he admitted his guilt for setting the cell on fire.
The appeal argued that the sentence should be revoked because the prisoner had already been given a separate sentence when 10 days were taken from his remission, and he had to pay €935 in damages and also spent three and a half months in a cell for 23 hours a day.
The Court of Appeal however said that cell confinement was not criminal but disciplinary punishment according to the European Convention of Human Rights and that the prisoner admitted his guilt in court in front of his lawyer.
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