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Woman charged with attempted murder, pleads not guilty
22-year-old woman says she acted in self-defence against husband's attempt to strangle her.
7 June 2012, 12:00am
Jurgen Balzan
Jurgen Balzan
1 min read
The courts have denied bail and put the accused under preventive arrest until her husband testifies.
22-year-old Sandra David today appeared in the court of Magistrate Miriam Hayman, pleading not guilty to the charge of attempted murder of her husband and of causing him grievous bodily harm.
Her husband, Samuel Bangara, has been hospitalised at Mater Dei Hospital.
The incident happened on Wednesday after 9pm. According to David's defence counsel Noel Bartolo, the young wife acted in self-defence against her husband's threats, claiming he tried to strangle her while also pulling her hair as she was cooking in the kitchen.
David said she acted in self-defence, hitting her husband with a pointed instrument, ostensibly a kitchen knife, without even turning to attack Bangara.
The woman was denied bail and put under preventive arrest until her husband testifies.
Police inspector Tony Cachia said that under interrogation, the woman claimed she was from Sierra Leone but it later transpired that she was in fact Nigerian, having lived in Malta for the past year.
Bangara and David were also said to be facing eviction from their rented home.
Jurgen Balzan was a MaltaToday reported from 2011 to 2017.
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"Police inspector Tony Cachia said that under interrogation, the woman claimed she was from Sierra Leone but it later transpired that she was in fact Nigerian, having lived in Malta for the past year." We have people living in Malta who do not even tell the truth about their nationality. The Refugee Commissioner is always complaining in his annual reports that his work is rendered more difficult by falsified documents presented by asylum seekers and many untrue stories.
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"Police inspector Tony Cachia said that under interrogation, the woman claimed she was from Sierra Leone but it later transpired that she was in fact Nigerian, having lived in Malta for the past year." We have people living in Malta who do not even tell the truth about their nationality. The Refugee Commissioner is always complaining in his annual reports that his work is rendered more difficult by falsified documents presented by asylum seekers and many untrue stories.
