Professor Edwin Grech was a prominent member of the MLP parliamentary group responsible for that hideous set up. THAT was the best time to solve that crime, one way or another.

After all, Prof Grech left a high position abroad in order to save the government’s bacon after it had locked out Maltese doctors and caused most to seek their livelihood out of the country.

Now, 34 years later, he claims he has evidence which the police never investigated. If I am not mistaken, soon after the programme ‘Evidenza’ mentioned in Prof Grech’s letter, Commissioner John Rizzo held a press conference at which time he went through Paul Chetcuti Caruana’s similar claims and stated, one by one, how such evidence was examined in detail but without positive results.

I watched the programme ‘Evidenza’ and I found one particular person quite unconvincing, to put it mildly. Also the fact that two identical letter bombs were made by the same person, using the same components and one goes off but the other did not is suspicious and no satisfactory explanation was forthcoming.

One understands Prof Grech and his family’s distress, but on the other hand it is also not right to accuse the police and other investigators of having their work impaired by ‘an influential hidden hand’.

Not naming this influential hidden hand to the police is primarily of great disservice to Prof Grech himself and his family. Not naming the ‘Mosta lawyer who allowed med students to hold their meetings in his office’ cannot prevent some simple investigation by the general public and discovering who the lawyers practicing in Mosta at that time, were.

The list could not have been too long and recognizing names could reduce the number further by political affiliation, etc. Any one of the 119 med students could easily identify the name of the lawyer, who, after all, presumably, is not one of the suspects.

In whose interest were those investigations not intensively carried out there and then, when they had the greatest chance of success? Why expect miracles now?

When I was the victim of political violence during Mintoff’s time I knew why serious police investigations were not carried out against known criminals, and I said so at the time.

It was because the criminals known both to me and to the police had important MLP connections. But I had no political clout to see that justice would be done. Prof. Edwin Grech had that clout.

Fiat justitia, ruat coelum. That should have been the guiding principle, but it wasn’t. We were not the only ones to suffer that kind of injustice. At least Prof. Edwin’s family seems to have been generously compensated even though money can never redress such injustices.

This re-writing of history is really worrying. The sooner something is done about it, the better.

Up to this day, I am mystified at how this case was not solved before 1987 when evidence was still relatively fresh and as was rightly pointed out earlier on , there was no separation of powers at the time.

Did anyone ever make any checks on those involved in the ORIGINAL investigation of the murder to see who, if any, may have had close relatives amongst the possible suspects referred to specifically by the Grech family?

Hang on a minute. Are we saying he has the names, has given them to the newspapers, but the newspapers refuse to publish them? It makes no sense at all. All he needs to do is phone in on a radio programme. Or publish on the internet. Or spray-paint them on a wall or something.

Libel laws. It seems like a very flimsy excuse.

A man whose daughter was murdered in such a horrific manner does not baulk at libel laws. I think the real reason is that he’s as confused as we are about the likely identity of the killer or killers.

[Daphne – I don’t mean Professor Grech, H. P. I mean the newspapers. THEY would baulk at the libel laws, and they are the ones responsible at law when publishing any such allegation.]

I was more concerned with Helena Dalli’s suggestion that the PN planted mercenaries within the Police force and the MLP :http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120416/opinion/To-lose-or-win-elections.415674

The gratuitous remarks made towards the end of that article are nauseating.
More “unbiased” journalism , this time from Balzan’s stables.

[Daphne – http://www.independent.com.mt/news2.asp?artid=65423 ]