President of the Police Officers Union Sandro Camilleri has expressed his anger at the recent court decision to allow a man who allegedly smashed a glass in a barman's face to go out on bail.

23-year-old unemployed Srdan Simic, from Serbia, who lives in St Paul's Bay, was charged with having involuntarily caused grievous bodily harm to Ryan Magro, a barman at Munchies pub.  Mr Magro was rushed to hospital, with doctors saying he had "almost certainly" lost sight in his left eye as a result.

Sandro Camilleri said that the accused and his friends "tried to change their identity, hid, jumped from balcony to balcony trying to evade arrest, it was a hassle to catch him, his friend testified that he did not remember anything pretending that he was drunk, and a person is losing sight in his eye, and you still grant him bail?"

"while we recognise that bail is an accused's right, we can never accept a decision like this. We join together with the rest of the Maltese population in anger"