That is the most optimistic scenario.
Keeping in mind Pietru Pawl Busuttil experience after the political murder of Raymond Caruana one cannot not exclude the possibility that the knife may be planted by the police somewhere to incriminate the wrong person.

Winston Churchill’s famous evaluation of democracy in actual practice:

Paraphrased his description was that, in theory, democracy is the best type of government there is but only as long as one holds a few minutes conversation with the average voter.

As you said, this undermines the foundations of society. Now I read that a court expert has declared that the injuries of Popa are self-inflicted. Jesus Christ – that’s all I can say.

“The magisterial inquiry established that the accused had, after allegedly stabbing the victim, gone up a tree and turned the knife upon himself in an act of desperation. He also allegedly set the house on fire since he realised that he had lost everything.”

Ma nistax nifhem kif xi ħadd iferi b’sikkina lil xi ħadd, jitla’ ma siġra bis-sikkina f’idu (?), kif ikun hemm fuq jagħti diversi daqqiet bis-sikkina f’żaqqu, u fl-istess ħin iqabbad id-dar.

Li kien xi ħadd ieħor, kont naħseb li kienu fil-kċina jargumentaw, Popa qabad jhedded vjolentament lil Yana, u t-tifel tagħha qabeż għal-ommu u fera sew lil Popa b’sikkina tal-kċina. Popa fis-saħna tad-demm tela’ mas-siġra għax Daniel kien qed jiġri warajh bis-sikkina.

L-omm u l-iben taw xi ftit qatgħat bis-sikkina lil xulxin, u qabel marru ċ-ċentru tas-saħħa, taw in-nar lil-kamra fejn ġara l-każ, biex titħassar kull evidenza.

Imma dan huwa kollu stħajjil ta’ moħħi li jaħseb dejjem ħażin f’min għandu ħafna flus. Naħseb li l-Pulizija Maltija ma jħarsux lejn l-uċuh ta’ ħadd meta jitwettaq attentat ta’ qtil fis-saħna tad-demm.

Mela bil-fors għandhom provi soda kontra l-akkużat li mid-dehra għandu dritt joqgħod fid-dar ta’ Yana Mintoff u għalek ma ngħatax il-liberta proviżorja.

I lived through the 1980s and we have gone 360 degrees since then.