Abner Aquilina Laughed As Police Confronted Him With Photo Of Semen He Sent Girl On Instagram
Trigger warning: This article contains explicit details that some people may find disturbing.
Murder suspect Abner Aquilina laughed during his interrogation when confronted by police of a disturbing photo he had sent a girl on Instagram.
Testifying in court today, Inspector Shawn Pawney recounted the interrogation of Aquilina, who has been charged with murdering Paulian Dembska at Sliema’s Independence Gardens on 2nd January and raping her afterwards.
He said a girl had reported Aquilina to the police after he harassed her on Instagram and sent her a photo of his semen on a tissue in November 2021. However, when he was asked about this, Aquilina started laughing, MaltaToday reported from court.
Another woman told police officers that she had got a sexually transmitted disease after having sex with Aquilina but this allegation couldn’t be proved as she had slept with other men.
After Dembska’s murder, Lovin Malta received numerous screenshots from messages sent by Aquilina, from his personal profile and other fake profiles on social media in which he sexually harassed and threatened women.
During today’s sitting, police inspector Wayne Camilleri testified that Aquilina had confessed to murdering and raping Dembska when he was taken to the Floriana Health Centre shortly after his arrest, claiming he was acting on Satan’s orders.
“What’s done is done. I killed a person and then raped her,” Aquilina told police, as reported by Times of Malta from court.
“I didn’t mean to hurt her so much. I first tried to attack two men, but then thought, better just one.”
“They’re making me leave her and kill more people. The world would have ended. He told me to put the sperm inside…. I didn’t want to give her my sperm because giving sperm is giving your soul.”
Asked how he killed Dembska, Aquilina made gestures of punching and kicking the air and asked the police if they think he’ll get away with it.
The confession was caught on policy bodycam but Aquilina didn’t repeat it when he was interrogated again in the presence of his lawyer Mario Mifsud.
Asked by Mifsud why he didn’t give him his rights at the polyclinic, Camilleri said that police had no idea he was going to admit to killing Dembska.
Inspector Pawney said Aquilina had turned around in his chair and dropped to the ground, only to stop when officers told him that they “weren’t impressed by his acting”.
He said Aquilina told police that he had parked his bike at the Marriott Hotel on the day of the murder, spotted two men walking along the promenade and asked them where they were going. After they ignored him, he placed his keys in his fist with they keys pointing out and ran after them but they got away.
Aquilina displayed discomfort when police showed him footage, lifting his T-shirt over his head, and kept referring to “magnetic frequencies” when asked about the murder.
Pawney said that while Aquilina had recalled several details of the night, he kept referring to spirits and magnetic frequencies whenever he felt cornered and pressured.
At the end of a particular interrogation, right after police had switched off the tape, Aquilina smirked and told the officers “A++, you were close”.
Following today’s sitting, Magistrate Marseanne Farrugia declared that there exists enough prima facie evidence for Aquilina to stand trial, adjourning the case until 2nd September.
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