And surgeons who accidentally amuputate their own fingers. I mean really. Yesterday’s “revelations” were nothing more than the usual series of Maltese-style circumlocutions and nudge-nudge-speak. “Avukat b’ufficju fic-centru ta’ Malta” indeed. “Kien carpenter” indeed. Medical students indeed. If Edwin Grech has the names, he should have given them. Otherwise, we are forced to conclude that he has nothing.

Ah, and “the hidden hand”. Which hidden hand? The PN government’s?

What a bunch of sensationalist Maltese tripe.

Missing fingers is not an exclusive characteristic of carpenters.

People dabbling with explosives in quarries or in the firework industry carry such a trademark too.

According to records that are freely available online, not all of the final year medical students left the island to qaulify in the UK .At the time of the doctors’ lock out , there were no fourth year students (or second year students for all that matters) either, but final, third and first year students.

Edwin Grech is also accusing “a carpenter”, apparently with some missing fingers. Truth is he makes accusations haphazardly and, at one point, even pointed at one of his own colleagues who was breaking the strike with him.

I didn’t watch the programme but judging from the articles in the press this morning, it seems Dr.Grech has new evidence.

Closure is also relevant in its entirety. Life seems to have been cheap back then. I sincerely hope the death of his daughter isn’t considered by some as having been balanced by the one in Gudja.

It’s also worthy to note that one of them does not exist in a part of the media.

To help them get over THEIR tragic loss, they were instead arrested, interrogated and harassed by the police.

Yesterday’s programme was yet another reminder of what life was really like in the golden Mintoff era.

If the Professor or Dr. C.C. know who the perpetrator was, they should name and shame him/them publicly so that the case will be closed .

Their reluctance to do so and the gratuitous slurs on fellow medics and Mater Dei (especially from Dr.C.C.) has placed scores of members of the medical profession and the doctors’union, irrespective of their political beliefs, in a situation that could prove harmful to them or their families in more ways then one, especially now that election fever is on the rise.