Is there something else we’re not being told?

Published: November 22, 2014 at 1:26am

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The official version so far is that Manuel Mallia’s driver heard a car smash when he was sitting indoors at his mother’s in Gzira.

He rushed outside in time to see Morrison Smith drive away after hitting his master’s car (he must have been sitting just inside the front door), and somehow had enough time to get his keys, climb into GM14, drive after him and catch up with him a few blocks away in Triq Wied Il-Kappara.

Then we’re told he forced Morrison Smith to stop by driving his car in front of him and blocking his path – and this in a street with parking on either side and only enough room for one car to go through at a time. Maybe GM14 flies just like Marc Sant.

In any case, I have an uncomfortable feeling that there is something we are not being told (for a change) and that the reason for all this panic, covering-up and that drawn gun goes beyond a smashed wing mirror.

Let’s face it, unless Paul Sheehan was coked up to the eyeballs there is no reason on earth his default reaction would have been to draw a gun on somebody because of a wing mirror.

Anyway, I’ve just been reminded by the man who sent it to me that I’ve got a photograph of Silvio Scerri’s (Manuel Mallia’s chief of staff) car parked ‘inconspicuously’ some months ago in the very area where the fracas happened. Probably total coincidence, of course. Maybe he was visiting his mother too, or he swims regularly in the National Pool.




12 Comments Comment

  1. Tabatha White says:

    And gosh how rapid that intervention unit was.

  2. Denis says:

    He could have had a lighting consultation, maybe?

  3. George says:

    Who hears a car hitting a mirror from inside a house on a busy street, runs out, identifies and manages to catch up with the speeding culprit, unless he has got the bionic abilities of the ‘Six Million Dollar Man’?

  4. Hallabaloo says:

    Is there a Chinese massage parlour close by?

  5. CIS says:

    That’s exactly my feeling. I doubted from the very start if it was his mother he was visiting. Was it an over reaction or was it a feud?

  6. Mim says:

    The thing which would be most interesting here would be if the whole farce/tragedy (for us who have to live under this lot), is if the whole scene were recreated.

    I have played it back and forward in my head and the only thing I can compare it to is a Jackie Chan movie.

    I am so glad that you are looking at the details.

  7. Banana republic ... again says:

    Where exactly does his mother live?

  8. ciccio says:

    That emphasis on “visiting his mother in Gzira” seems to be the kind of detail thrown in there to misguide the media and the public.

    Why were the two men on the same street at the same time? How did Morrison Smith end up on this road – where-from-to was he going? Or had he been in the neighbourhood and then driven off?

    Is Sheehan’s mother’s house in Gzira used as a meeting place for some shady business?

    I see that the broken mirror could be another easy deviation: anyone can break a mirror before the media arrives. So was it just the mirror that was broken on the minister’s car?

    The fact that Morrison Smith was a client of Dr. Mallia raises further questions about what was going on here.

  9. Plutarch says:

    Unless this Sheehan chap is pathologically trigger-happy, or a highly strung neurotic of the Oscar Pistorius extraction, there was clearly no need to pull out a firearm, let alone fire it three times at a fleeing car, just because of a smashed mirror.

    If Joe ‘Awtobassa tal Iljun’ Mizzi got it right when someone ‘rammed’ his ministerial car, any intellectually-challenged stone can do the same. Unless, as you ask, there is more to this botched cover-up attempt.

  10. tinnat says:

    Can someone confirm that Mrs Sheehan lives in Gzira?

    [Daphne – Yes, she does.]

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