In the 80s I was a little girl and one of our neighbours was a minister’s driver.

I still remember his speeding up and all the show-off and abuse on the road with the ministerial car.

The prompt criminal tampering with the evidence before the investigating magistrate arrived on the scene will make the answer to legitimate questions well nigh impossible. That was the whole purpose of the cover-up as it was in days long past of a precious MLP government.

“An attempt to cover up a cover-up with a bigger cover-up is how I would describe what the Prime Minister did in Parliament on Wednesday.”

Gvern tal-cover-ups.

Then this eyewitness might have seen the GM14 car as it gave chase to Stephen Smith’s Vauxhall.

Perhaps immediately after the shots were fired they drove a short way down Edgar Bernard Street, then left onto M.T.Spinelli Street and right down / up Guze Miceli Street onto Sliema Road. That would explain this eyewitness account.

‘Your’ map may therefore be slightly inaccurate, although the route between the shooting and the tunnel might not be all that significant, I suppose.

There are witnesses that heard the two shots in Edgar Bernard Street but they kept mum.

Triq Guze Miceli runs parallel to Triq Edgar Bernard, and leads directly from the car park of the ‘pixxina’ to Sliema Road.

Sheehan had said in one of the recorder phone calls that he was near the ‘pixxina’ car park.

“Iva, jarawni” he told the officer who took the 112 call when he asked if he was in the car park.

The map you uploaded some days ago does not go anywhere near the national pool, car park, or Triq Guze Miceli. And the picture of Silvio Scerri’s car that you had shown some time ago appears to have been taken in Triq Maria Teresa Spinelli, which runs from Triq Edgar Bernard, across the front of St Monica School and to the ‘pixxina’ car park.

[Daphne – Please remember that there are eyewitnesses to two shots fired at the end of Triq Wied Il-Kappara where it meets Edgar Bernard Street. They were definitely there at the time because they were seen by a woman walking her dog and another woman who lives there. This does not preclude the possibility that they were actually at the car park at some point, but I think it more likely that Sheehan said ‘near the pool car park’ because that would be the nearest landmark in his mind. He wouldn’t have known the name of the street.]

Two shots were heard but it is possible that more shots were fired during the chase but they didn’t hit the car.

It is possible that the cartridges have been replaced in the gun magazine except two for obvious reasons.