Court orders rape trial to be heard behind closed doors

Judge Michael Mallia has this morning started presiding over a trial by bench of three Somali and a Sudanese migrant who stand charged with rape of a woman in March 2007 at the Marsa Open Centre.

The trial was delayed for the past five years after different lawyers renounced the defence.

Judge Mallia will decide on the verdict as the case is being heard without a jury.