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A man was acquitted of drug trafficking today after a court found that what were supposed to be 12,213 ecstasy pills were actually caffeine pills.
Joseph Buttigieg, 39 of Marsa, was arrested after a raid on his house. The pills were found in his night table.
He told the police that he had been taking cocaine for 10 years and ecstasy for three years.
However a chemist told the court that the drugs found in Mr Buttigieg's house were actually caffeine, which was a stimulant which did not fall within the controlled drugs law.
The court said the court could not find the accused guilty of drug trafficking, once the pills were not ecstasy.
Read more here.
He was still charged with drug possession.
Joseph Buttigieg, 39 of Marsa, was arrested after a raid on his house. The pills were found in his night table.
He told the police that he had been taking cocaine for 10 years and ecstasy for three years.
However a chemist told the court that the drugs found in Mr Buttigieg's house were actually caffeine, which was a stimulant which did not fall within the controlled drugs law.
The court said the court could not find the accused guilty of drug trafficking, once the pills were not ecstasy.
Read more here.
He was still charged with drug possession.
