THE FUSE

Plotting a murder in a potato shed; tens of thousands of euros handed over in a brown envelope. The trial of Yorgen Fenech, the 44-year-old heir to a Maltese property empire, is full of details about how the car-bomb murder of the anti-corruption journalist Caruana Galizia was conceived and carried out. The start of proceedings this week in a Valletta courtroom is a development many feared would never happen, after many delays and legal challenges.