PL MEP Candidate Casts Doubt On Forensic Expert’s Removal From Karin Grech Murder Case
As Malta marked the 46th anniversary of Karin Grech’s murder, a PL MEP candidate has raised serious questions about the way the investigation was handled.
Daniel Attard shared an interview he had conducted during his tenure at ONE News with Anthony Abela Medici, a forensic expert whom the courts had entrusted to investigate the murder six years after it took place after the first investigation proved inconclusive.
In it, Abela Medici recounted how his investigation led him to a particular suspect, who had a record of using explosives and who he believed had fled the country “without passing through the airport or the seaport”.
High-ranking police officials even travelled to Australia in 1994 to acquire the suspect’s fingerprints but they never reached Abela Medici’s forensic lab, and the courts were simply told that the fingerprints “didn’t match”.
“In 1994, I encountered several problems with the administration from a forensic point of view,” Abela Medici said. “In 1992, they even removed my driver and I had to walk from the police depot to the court with the evidence in my hands. There were all these problems.”
He was eventually removed from the investigation together and said he had no idea why that was the case.
No one has ever been charged with Karin Grech’s murder, and her father Edwin Grech died this year without seeing justice done for his 15-year-old daughter.
Attard said that although the murderers want people to forget about what happened, he will keep calling for justice.
Will Malta ever see justice done for Karin Grech?
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