Mark Camilleri has suggested that brothers George and Alfred Degiorgio should be locked up in solitary confinement with no privileges after they refused to testify against murder suspect Yorgen Fenech.

“The Degiorgio brothers have to be punished severely for refusing to testify, including by keeping them locked in solitary confinement with absolutely no privileges whatsoever and consuming only the very minimum amount of food and water to survive,” Camilleri wrote in his blog.

“The conditions of their confinement should be as difficult and rough as possible so they get finally bored and irritated enough to fulfill their duty and testify as soon as possible.”

“If the guards taunt them a bit about their misery, that would also help speed up things a little.”

“The Degiorgio brothers are not ordinary criminals. They are criminal gunmen and fighters against the state who hold a totally different set of rules from the laws and rules of the state.”

“They have their own organisation and network and they murder and kill people in cold-blood and have no remorse about it. This isn’t a case of criminals who are being rehabilitated. This is war, so act accordingly you fools.”

The Degiorgio brothers are currently serving 40-year prison sentences for their role in the 2017 assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Magistrate Rachel Montebello last week ordered fresh charges against them after they refused to testify against Fenech, who is currently awaiting trial, on the grounds that they have instituted a constitutional case to demand a retrial.