A man charged with carrying out five bomb hoaxes at the law courts has had a Constitutional case claiming a breach of his human rights turned down. 

Richard Cuschieri, 42, from Hamrun, claimed that the prosecution's request for him to provide a voice sample for comparison purposes would automatically incriminate him and thus breach his human rights. 

The man phoned the police multiple times in 2012 claiming a bomb had been place in the law courts, in order to postpone several pending civil and criminal cases he was a party to. 

The Court upheld the prosecution’s request for a voice comparison test to be conducted which led to the accused filing a Constitutional application in December 2013, saying the test breaches the fundamental rights for a fair trial and asking the Constitutional court to revoke the request for the test. 

Madam Justice Jacqueline Padovani Grima ruled that there is nothing extraordinary in the request for a voice sample, and the sample will be taken within all the relevant safeguards offered by the law.