UPDATED: TVM contributor instructs Simon Busuttil to commit suicide. Later apologises.

Updated. 23:19. Scroll down to see apology published by Albert Jerome Fenech.

Albert Fenech, who works from home for our national news service, posted on Facebook last Friday encouraging Simon Busuttil to jump off cliffs.

Simon Busuttil tweeted on Thursday reminding people of the last PN mass meeting before the 2017 elections, his last day of glory as leader of the PN. He wrote that the fight against corruption started then still needs to be finished.

You’re free to disagree with him. Tell him the people have decided already that what he started is not what they want done. Tell him he’s no longer in a position to finish anything. Tell him what you like.

But for a newsman to publicly tell anyone suicide is the way ahead for them is absolutely incredible. Or maybe it isn’t. It’s just plain typical.

Now Albert Jerome Fenech will say he’s exercising his freedoms. Sure he is. And I’m exercising my freedom to tell him he’s an embarrassment to his profession, his employer and if he had a shred of decency to himself.

Updated at 23:19. Albert Jerome Fenech regretted his earlier post and published the following apology.