Aqra bil- Malti
A 34-year-old woman from Zebbug was sentenced to two years suspended for four years after she admitted in Court to demanding €10,000 from her ex-partner so that she would not report him to the Police for rape.
The woman, who works as a property agent, was also accused of harassment, of sharing explicit photos or videos of the man without his consent, of scaring and threatening him that she would damage his property.
Appearing in front of Magistrate Leonard Caruana it resulted that the couple were in a relationship for around a year and half which ended in October 2024, although they kept making up and breaking up again.
On 26 march she filed a Police report in which she alleged that she had been raped but the man denied this and said that she had approached him and told him that she had a video showing he had allegedly raped her.
It was explained that this video was taken by a camera which she had in her living room and which was installed to keep an eye on her cat when she was not at home.
During a video call, the accused told him that he owed her €10,000, which she said was accumulated from water and electricity bills from when he and his son used to live in her home.
He continued to deny raping her and on 10 April she sent a screenshot from the video to one of his friends. During Police investigations it resulted that she also scratched the door of his property and wrote offensive words on it.
Magistrate Caruana sentenced her to two years suspended for 4 years, fined her €100, ordered her to pay €350 for the damage she caused to the man’s home as well as issuing a treatment order for her to follow psychological treatment and a restraining order in favour of the victim.
The Prosecution was led by Inspector Christian Cauchi while the woman was defended by Dr Martina Herrera.