Court delays are unacceptable, but the Prime Minister said that the courts are being given all the necessary resources to try and deliver quicker sentences. “To have a verdict given 18 years after the occurrence is a delay that’s completely unacceptable,” he stated. Abela noted that one of the two accused spent 10 years in prison waiting for the trial only to be acquitted. But on how to solve the delays, Abela said this is an endemic issue and any efforts to address it have not worked out. “We allocated all the resources that were asked of us by the court – whether it was an increase in judges, we met the request.

Source: Libya Today January 24, 2023 00:05 UTC