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Brothers jailed for 40 years for murder of Maltese journalist

Caruana Galizia Daphne Caruana Galizia Murder George Degiorgio Yorgen Fenech Malta Alfred Joseph Muscat Vincent Muscat Keith Schembri
Brothers Alfred and George Degiorgio went on trial on Friday accused of setting off the device that blew Caruana Galizia's car [File: Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters]

A judge in Malta has sentenced two brothers to 40 years in prison each after they abruptly reversed course and pleaded guilty to the car-bomb murder of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, which had shocked Europe and triggered angry protests in Malta.

Hours earlier, at the start of the trial on Friday in a Valletta courthouse, George Degiorgio, 59, and Alfred Degiorgio, 57, had entered not-guilty pleas over the death of Caruana Galizia in the blast as she drove near her home on October 16, 2017.

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