Prof Edwin Grech, the father of letter bomb victim Karin Grech, has complained that important information which he passed on to the police and which could have helped solved the crime, was not acted upon.
Prof Grech wrote in The Sunday Times yesterday, adding his voice to the controversy on whether the murder should have been included in the film Dear Dom.
He recalled the Constitutional Court's judgement of November 30, 2010, which accepted that the motive for this most heinous crime was one of a medical/political nature.
Prof Grech said his daughter's killing, and the that of Raymond Caruana were both politically-motivated murders which has not been solved because there is an influential hidden hand keeping these murders from being solved and justice done. 1, 2011).
With regard to the motive and investigation of his daughter's case, Prof Grech wrote:
"One cannot explain how the police were unable to solve any of these crimes. In my daughter's case, they had always suspected that the murder was medically/politically related to the doctors' strike, yet the criminal investigation was so amateurish and disjointed. I wonder why.
The most important group of students were never investigated, while politically-connected people were also never interrogated or investigated.
The forensic expert on the programme Evidenza on Net TV revealed that after 34 years the investigators are still seeking fingerprints and other clues from 119 suspects.
Another forensic official on the same programme believed and declared openly that this crime "can still be solved because there are clues which could still be important." (In-Nazzjon, December 26, 2011).
I have personally provided extremely important information to the police which should have led them to solve the crime. They even failed to check the veracity of this information. This could easily have been done since it was obtained in another lawyer's office, not to mention the unwillingness to properly conduct a serious investigation.
This information which I had passed on to the police was made public on several occasions. There was absolutely no reaction to this from any quarters, so I will briefly repeat it here.
During the doctors' strike, when the Medical School, located in the grounds of St Luke's Hospital, closed down, the Medical Students Association council started to meet in the legal offices of a well-known politician in central Malta, when these were not in use.
Also present at these meetings were MAM council members and a number of politically-associated people.
The plot of the parcel bombs was hatched in these offices by this group, which used the telephone directory to obtain my address and that of Paul Chetcuti Caruana. Envelopes and typewriters were also used.
A well-known criminal with experience in explosives was commissioned to prepare these explosive devices, naturally at a price and perhaps blackmail as well.
A very good carpenter (referred to in a Scotland Yard report which the police hold) was engaged to prepare the small wooden (beech wood) container with two narrow compartments in it, which held the battery and explosive, so well illustrated by the forensic expert on the Net TV programme.
This person was very well known to the lawyer-politician. The same person also used to allow the medical students and the other people to enter the legal office.
Another person carried and posted the parcel bombs, one in Sliema and the other in Mosta. This person is likely to have been the same carpenter.
As informed, this person must have had several missing or partly missing fingers, an occupational hazard often encountered among carpenters. This will explain why the palm prints on the envelopes were more prominent than the fingerprints.
Someone writing in The Times (January 25, 2012) commented that "you do not have to be Sherlock Holmes to come up with some concrete names".
I hope the police and whoever else is involved in the investigation are listening," Prof Grech said.
See full letter at: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120415/opinion/Motives-behind-my-daughter-s-murder.415494