A Maltese jury has acquitted businessman Yorgen Fenech of complicity in the 2017 car bomb murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, with eight of nine jurors finding him not guilty. The verdict has provoked widespread anger after police interview footage — already shown during the trial — was published by the Sunday Times of Malta showing Fenech admitting he initially gave the go-ahead for the killing, though he claimed he tried to call it off three days later. Malta's public prosecutor is seeking an appeal, though a higher court must first determine whether procedural errors occurred before any retrial can be ordered; Caruana Galizia's son Matthew said his family and Malta itself need justice, warning that the country's rule of law is at a breaking point.