'There seems to be no tangible effort to conclude the Karin Grech case'

Forty-five years after the murder of Karin Grech, there seemed to be “no tangible effort” to conclude the unresolved case, according to her cousin, Opposition Leader Bernard Grech.
There were “no real significant developments – unless someone is brought to justice”, he said.
Grech was commenting on the 45th anniversary on Wednesday of her brutal killing at the age of 15 by a letter bomb, which arrived at the door of her San Ġwann home three days after Christmas on December 28, 1977, at 12.30pm.

The parcel bomb – a brown envelope containing a package in Christmas wrapping – was addressed to her father, Edwin Grech, and was motivated by the medical-political unrest at the time.
His teenage daughter opened it up and the bomb exploded in her face in front of her 10-year-old brother’s eyes. She died in hospital shortly afterwards.
The murder happened at the height of the doctors’ strike, during which Grech continued to work at St Luke’s Hospital when he was asked by the government to run its obstetrics and gynaecology department.
Among the few Maltese doctors who refused to strike, he was working as a consultant in the UK at the time and had agreed to return to Malta to fulfil the...