This guy either tells lies or peddles them

Looking left and right

"My ‘serious allegations’ seem to have emanated from a private conversation I had in confidence with my client, Christopher Engerer, who in turn appears to have discussed the matter with his son, who subsequently discussed the matter with his godfather who then, felt duty bound to call the Commissioner of Police, in order for him to contact me to convince me that there was no political motivation behind the criminal charges and my client’s arrest ... I never made any statement, nor any form of allegations whatsoever vis-à-vis the modus operandi of the Police."

This is the way that Carlo Bisazza, the lawyer representing Cyrus Engerer's father in his drug bust case, described the way things happened. With this declaration, this story has taken a turn, opening a new window on Cyrus Engerer's credibility and integrity.

I do not know Carlo Bisazza but from my checking he has emerged as a man of integrity, scrupulous in the exercise of his profession. There is no reason to doubt his word. I know Edgar Galea Curmi, the head to the PM's secretariat, and he is of the same breed. Incidentally, even if you have no faith in Galea Curmi, his godson was present for the phone conversation with the Police Commissioner. And the godson has not denied a single word of his godfather's version of events.

Therefore, since Bisazza and Galea Curmi are both telling the truth there can only be one of two scenarios which explains what happened.

Scenario 1: Chris Engerer peddled the lie to his son that his lawyer told him that the drug bust was a set piece of political revenge for his defection to Labour. Cyrus Engerer then rushed off to repeat it to his godfather. If this is what happened, young Engerer, Labour's new star candidate, lacks the most fundamental of political virtues - a sense of judgement.

Scenario 2: Cyrus Engerer concocted the lie himself and rushed off to deceive his own godfather. In which case, any comment on his fitness for political office would be superfluous.