Suspended Sentence in Malta Drug Case Signals Shift Toward Healing, Not Handcuffs
A 34-year-old Birkirkara man who was facing a potential two-year jail term for aggravated drug possession has walked out of Malta’s Court of Criminal Appeal with a one-year sentence – fully suspended for 24 months – after judges accepted that his addiction was “a cry for help rather than a criminal vocation.” The decision, delivered…