Murdered lawyer Margaret Mifsud had complained to a colleague just two weeks before she died that her former husband had threatened her, a court heard yesterday.

Dr Mifsud, 31, a mother of two young girls, was found dead in her car on April 19 last year in suspicious circumstances in a dilapidated area just off the Coast Road in Baħar iċ-Ċagħaq.

The court hearing the case of her 34-year-old former husband, Nizar El Gadi, who stands charged with the murder, has been told there were no signs of violence on her body except for blood that trickled out of her nose and mouth.

In other evidence, it was alleged that, barely a month before her death, Mr El Gadi threateningly asked her whether she wanted to know how to kill a person without being found out.

Dr Mifsud’s colleague, Paul Bugeja, an auditor, testified yesterday that, while at the office, he had contacted the victim and asked her to sign some documents regarding the liquidation of a company.

She told him that she could not make it because of a family problem. He only found out what happened the next day when she turned up at the office and said that her former husband had threatened her.

“One or two weeks later she was dead,” he said.

Dr Mifsud’s medical file and X-rays from Mater Dei Hospital were presented to the court, which was told some documents were missing and, although a search had been carried out, the items could not be traced.

Police Inspector Keith Arnaud asked the court to appoint an expert to trace the route that Mr El Gadi said he took on the night before Dr Mifsud was found dead and the route the police thought he had actually followed.

Magistrate Saviour Demicoli appointed architect Robert Musumeci.

The case continues.