I’m just thinking of more possibilities.

Maybe he took off his jacket because he was acting as if he were going to jump. A jacket would act as some sort of protection, jumping without a jacket means less protection. Maybe? Then… any of the above.

Let’s say you are right here and that he didn’t want to leave the country but took the letter and passport to hurt her.

You are right, what would you do in Denmark with 2,500? Hardly anything BUT doing what he did and staying in Malta, he would have been caught straight away.

Ending up a relationship with a vulnerable girl of 15, which most probably was her first love, giving her pills and booze, taking her at 4am or so to Dingli Cliffs is like practically telling her to jump. Instead of pushing her with his own hands, he pushed her with his nasty actions. In my opinion that is homicide too.

Yes, true.

No, he would not have been wearing the jacket.

Don’t worry about it, Baxxter.

We’re not short, we’re ‘fun sized’.

If the jacket was found several metres away from Lisa then Daphne’s theory of the jacket being thrown by her and him retaliating by pushing her would be the most plausible since I very much doubt that the throwing of a jacket and a person jumping off a cliff would land in exactly the same place.

If the jacket was found only a metre or two away from Lisa then I would think that he would have pushed her and in an attempt to clutch on to dear life she would have grabbed hold of the easiest thing to grab a good hold of (in this case being Erin’s open jacket) and in a panic to free himself not to get pulled down with her he would have wriggled his way out of it leaving Lisa fall with the jacket gripped in her hand possibly only letting go of it while falling.

That’s like saying that fit, thin women have their own areas of concern.

See my point? Back in the day, the Ideal Woman was thin and pretty, and magazine covers and adverts were full of them. Then post-PC, we started getting images of normal women, including the frumpy, the pudgy, the homely and all that. Now it’s the latest in cutting-edge marketing.

But what about the Ideal Man? It’s still a six-foot, sculpted Adonis, with designer stubble over a chiselled jaw, and the eye of a CEO.

Don’t give me that Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise reply. The former is hardly any modern girl’s fantasy, and the latter is derided by all precisely because of his height.

It’s not even about our lack of pulling power. Try facing a panel of normal-sized men and women at a job interview. The condescension will kill you before you even open your mouth. Even if you do get a job (perhaps by some statistical fluke your interviewee happens to be vertically challenged and takes pity), you find yourself facing the big bosses, who will literally look down their noses at you.

The insufferable condescension of Alex Sceberras Trigona, Tonio Borg, Kevin Ellul Bonici and Edward Scicluna is the stuff of legend.

Let me follow the advice of those clever entrepreneurs from Linkedin and be proactive here: what Malta needs is a school for jockeys and polo players.

Tall people have their own areas of concern.

I’ve been thinking about this since the last mention.

Tall people have back problems, workspace height problems – even sitting at a normal table is uncomfortable – shoe sizes are often ordered in limited supply, trousers are short, skirts expose too much, dresses have waists in the wrong places, they need to eat larger quantities, sitting on an Air Malta plane requires planning to sit on the aisle but not trip up the steward/air hostess, level eye contact is a rare occurrence, etc.

What it does is offer a one-off opportunity to be forced to develop an own sense of style and approach. You’ve done that.

Would you exchange your intelligence for height? Would a little less be worth a little more? I hardly think so.

Would you put it all at risk for a moment of negative mention? Again, I hardly think so.

Here’s a vote for Baxxter, and I hope that I will be able to use it one day.

Caroline Stewart Tanti lists on her Facebook page that she “worked” (Facebook-eze for ‘currently works’) at Masquerade.

https://www.facebook.com/carolinestewart.tanti?ref=ts&fref=ts

She would thus have a pretty good idea of Lisa Zahra’s true age, without having to rely on what he son says. I can’t but help think Ms Stewart Tanti was somehow trying to exculpate herself and her son by saying she thought the victim was 17 (albeit still her son’s minor pupil), and that she was in collusion with him on certain matters.