1) The Commissioner is continually prompting Sheenan to state certain ‘facts’.

2) There is a complete lack of emotion on both sides during the reporting of this shocking event. Compare this to when Sheehan first rang the control room.

3) The Commissioner just carried on the conversation calmly (no shock) when Sheenan admitted that he had FIRED TWO SHOTS at another man…because of a broken wing mirror.

Would the Minister’s driver dare state ‘that he was with Minister’ if this was not true? Eyewitnesses reported that there was another man involved.

Why did Sheenan`s brother rush back to their mum to tell her that Sheenan `sparalu zewg tiri’? They must have known him previously.

Smith’s total silence is very strange.

I am with you 100% on this one. I believe they have tampered with the recording. The commissioner’s voice is too clear.

Has anybody seen a picture of the boot of GM14 in a closed position?

Was it open for a different reason? Besides putting the plates in and a possible transfer of merchandise?

Could there have been some damage that was not visible on film?

When the Ministry’s statement was issued and reported in the media a lot of emphasis was made on that broken bottle in Smith’s hand and the latter’s breathalyzer test which measured three times the normal level of alcohol.

Was this an invention (if not a lie) by Sheehan on the spur of the moment when he realised his version was being relayed to the P.M.’s communications man?

Smith was arrested and held in custody at Police HQ for many hours. He must have been interrogated, or at least asked, about his version of the events. What did he say?

If so, it is obvious the he knew already what had happened. Could it be that this particular recording of the phone call was done afterwards to clear Kurt Farrugia?

Apparti l-izbalji li allegatament ghamel Ray Zammit, ma nistghax nifhem kif se jaccetta li jehel b’kollox hu. Anke jekk se jwieghduh xi haga wara li jikkwietaw l-affarijiet, hemm ir-reputazzjoni tieghu fin-nofs.

Imissu jammetti sehmu imma mhux aktar. Din mhux bicca xoghol ta’ wahdu. Ghandu jibza’ ghalih inniffsu u ghal-familtu. Imissu jammetti biss il-hazin li seta’ wettaq hu u mhux jerfa’ ta’ haddiehor. Almenu fl-ahhar jimxi ta’ ragel u agir bhal dan ikun ferm apprezzat. And to hell with his cousin and all the others.

Why was Don Manuel given custody of the girl?

It is very unusual for the mother not to get custody. This only happens when the mother is in jail or is on drugs or is not capable of looking after herself let alone her children.

Didn’t the mother want the girl or did Don Manuel play one of his dirty tricks and manage to convince the court that she is a total loony?

[Daphne – We don’t know whether Carmela is his. What we do know is that she is adopted. The Maltese system allows people to adopt their biological children, but it does not follow that Carmela is the Police Minister’s biological child.]

Those involved panicked with the outcome of the shooting.

Instead of doing what was supposed to be done, they opted for a cover-up and made a mess out of it.

Now whose idea was that to cover up. I think it was Joseph Muscat’s idea or at least he authorized the idea.

PC533: Le le, wara hemmhekk tajtu ġiex tiri jien.

CoP: Kif rikeb ġol-karozza?

PC533: Mela.

CoP: Kif rikeb ġol-karozza dan tah kemm il-tir tajtu?

PC533: Tnejn.

CoP: Tnejn jew tlieta?

PC533: Tnejn għandu jkun.

CoP: Għandu jkun żewġ tiri li jiftakar tah, żewġ warning shots. Imbagħad x’ġara?

Something jars here. Why would the COP mention three shots himself when Sheehan had just said that he had fired off two shots.

Had I been on the phone telling our CoP that I had just stabbed a man twice, would he also have asked me whether I had stabbed him twice or three times?