With that style of writing and grammatical mistakes, may I ask what kind of psychologist are you?

If you’re a psychologist I must be Elizabeth Taylor or the standard of educational requirements must have really come down in recent years.

So she was going through her Goth phase, followed by grunge – which fifteen-year-old with a particular affinity to music doesn’t?

Song lyrics, lest anyone assumes the worst.

I’ going to butt in here. Are you nuts?

Tanti was a 23-year old teacher exploiting his minor pupil. Two confused people? There was only one adult in this relationship and he had a professional and legal obligation to guide his pupil, not bed her and mess with her mind.

Let’s put this differently – would you put yourself in the hands of a surgeon who isn’t compos mentis and then excuse the ensuing mess on the basis of a Bible quotation?

No, not me, either.

The thing she knew about him that would have incriminated him is the fact that he was in a sexual relationship with her.

That, in itself, is not a threat.

As has been vociferously demonstrated here and elsewhere, Tanti’s relationship with his pupil wasn’t a secret among her contemporaries.

Oh dear. If you really are a psychologist, what does that say about professional standards in Malta?

No. Self-harm is NOT always an attempt at suicide. Suicide IS the extreme form of self-harm but, in the latter case, the practice is akin to other forms of addiction that provide relief from negative emotions or the absence of feeling.

Treating self-harm as if it is always a failed suicide attempt is destructive, not constructive.

My 17-year old son was a friend of Lisa Marie Zahra from the drama school. Last July they were part of a small group of students who went on an exchange visit to London and, at the time, she was already involved with Erin Tanti. All their friends knew.

As that anonymous fellow pupil said, Lisa Marie would sometimes skip her own lessons to attend Erin Tanti’s classes, obviously without the school’s knowledge and permission.

[Daphne – So it must have started when she was 14.]