Mr Justice Michael Mallia yesterday rejected an appeal by Joseph Leone Ganado and confirmed his five-year jail term for corrupting minor children who included children aged under 12.

Leone Ganado was the driver of the four girls’ school van. The offences took place on 14 June, 2005 and in previous months in Rabat and elsewhere in Malta, when he corrupted the girls and even helped in corrupting two boys, also aged under 12.