Yorgen Fenech ’s Lawyers Met Keith Schembri Before He Testified: Witness Shares Evidence He Kept In Back Pocket

Johann Cremona, the business partner of Yorgen Fenech, made a sensational outburst in court today, presenting evidence of Fenech’s defence lawyer Charles Mercieca communicating with Keith Schembri, the man they now accuse of being behind Daphne’s murder.

He also claimed that Mercieca and Gianluca Caruana Curran, another defence lawyer, met Keith Schembri the night before the former OPM chief of staff testified in the compilation of evidence against Fenech.

“You want to laugh? I’ll show you,” he said as he unfolded a paper from his pocket. It showed a screenshot Schembri sent, showing Mercieca sending Schembri a selfie. “All while his client is in prison,” he added.

The photo was a selfie of Mercieca with his ex-partner’s uncle with the message “awguri”.

“He’s taking the piss out of his client. They even paid people in the media to shit on me.”

“The note has been in my pocket the whole time during the trial. Also, if you want to know, Gianluca Caruana Curran went to go meet Keith Schembri at his office in Floriana near the Turkish embassy,” he said.

“The defence want to destroy me, weaken my testimony.”

The incident came after Gianella de Marco was asking him questions on communications with Kenneth Cammileri. Mercieca laughed at his response, and it triggered the massive response from Cremona.

“They destroyed me. Everything. You think you’re so smart,” he told them.

Judge Edwina Grima took the incident seriously, trying to calm down the combative interaction between the witness and the defence. She paused his testimony, and Cremona was sent home.

Earlier, questioning focused on the relationship between Cremona, Schembri and the OPM security official.

Messages were shown in court where GDM tried to imply they were close friends, even a “team” and coordinated their testimonies.

“We wouldn’t be called to testify – because Arnaud wants [Theuma’s] mother,” he told Schembri in a message. 

“I didn’t like Arnaud. The way he acted with me wasn’t great,” Cremona explained in court. 

“How could I coordinate testimony when I didn’t even know that there were recordings of what I said?”

“I hoped Keith would help me. He was mentioned in everything”

The following communication, which was shown and has been blocked from publication pending further testimony, fueled the outburst.