A man has been jailed for two years and four months for attempting to assault a magistrate and threatening her in her courtroom. Pasqualino Cefai, a 36-year-old Gozitan who is already serving a seven-year jail term over a separate stabbing incident in a Gozo courtroom, was found guilty of threatening and insulting the magistrate, disobeying police orders, resisting and assaulting several officers, injuring a constable, breaching the peace and swearing in public. The latest incident took place when Mr Cefai took exception with Magistrate Miriam Hayman for hearing the evidence presented by the prosecution in the absence of his lawyer Edward Gatt, who had failed to turn up for the sitting dealing with the repayment of a loan. He had insisted on being represented by his lawyer and was asked to quiet down numerous times. He then "lost it" when Magistrate Hayman ordered him out of the courtroom, and swore and threatened her. The police attempted to restrain him, upon which the accused grabbed Inspector Johann Fenech by the neck, ripped his tie and threatened to kill him or hurt his family. The police managed to handcuff him but the accused continued being disruptive in the corridors.
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