Knife attack victim fearful as his attacker appeals court judgment [Video]

A man who survived a frenzied butcher’s knife attack at the hands of a man who was recently jailed for 42 years is worried he will have to relive the legal nightmare now that his attacker appealed the court judgment.

“It’s ridiculous… I was thinking that, finally, everything is closed and now we have to start from the beginning,” Emil Marinov said the day after he heard that his attacker appealed the jail term and asked for the case to be sent back to the first court.

On March 5, Eliott Paul Busuttil, 40, was sentenced to 42 years in prison after admitting to trying to kill Marinov when he attacked him with a butcher’s knife and to the murder of a taxi driver two years later.

Busuttil, from Attard, was on bail for the attempted murder of Marinov in August 2020 when he murdered 62-year-old taxi driver Mario Farrugia, …