A Zejtun shopkeeper and his two sons have been acquitted of grievously injuring a man whom they caught trying to shoplift from their store twice. The case dates to December 2012 when Joseph Micallef, 57 and his sons Clydon, 30, and Luke,26, were also charged with the illegal arrest and destruction of evidence after CCTV footage capturing the incident was allegedly "erased by mistake". The police had received a phone call from the shop owner reporting that Anthony Seisun had been apprehended in the act of stealing whisky bottles from GM Discount Store in Zejtun. Policemen arrested the thief at the scene and found two bottles of whisky in the lining of a jacket he had been wearing. Mr Seisun, who was subsequently convicted of theft, was certified as having suffered a cut to the cartilage of his right ear, needing stitches. Such a wound is classed as "grievous" as it pertained to the facial area. Taking the witness stand at the Micallefs' trial, Mr Seisun claimed he had been attacked by the three men and an unidentified dark-skinned man whilst he had been browsing the spirits section. The beating had been a brutal one, he said, and had left shoe marks on his face. The dark-skinned...
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