Updated | Police probe teachers for taking students to Paceville bar

Updated at 15:00

A Court heard how two teachers from St. Albert College accompanied a group of nine boys to a Paceville bar at the end of a graduation party which was held at the Corinthia Hotel St. Georges Bay, last June.

The boys were called to testify before Magistrate Ian Farrugia this morning as police prosecuted Glenn Ciantar, the owner of Chequers Bar for allowing minors on his premises.

The recently changed law increased the permitted age to enter a bar to 17.

The boys were 16 years old, and testified that they were with their teachers when they walked into the bar.

One of the students said that it was the teachers who actually took them to the bar.

The teachers have meanwhile been summoned to give their evidence before Magistrate Ian Farrugia on November 2.

A visbly concerned Mario Mallia, headmaster at St. Albert College told MaltaToday that the case was a very unfortunate one, where a "totally innocent" idea of two teachers to go to Paceville turned out to be a nightmare.

"It was really unfortunate, and the parents were around the area at that time waiting for their sons," he said.

Another witness, a 16 year-old girl who had nothing to do with the college boys, told the court that she had been out and had agreed to meet her mother at Exchequers.

She entered the bar but didn't find her mother, and was stopped by the police as soon as she walked out.

The case continues.