So was Gera just a random intruder?

The police cannot close the investigation into last year’s double stabbing unless new information emerges that will lead to someone being charged in court, according to various criminal experts. A year after the gruesome incident – where two men died of knife wounds in a Sliema penthouse after one of them apparently entered as an intruder – the public and the families involved are still hankering for an explanation. But hope of finding answers is dwindling because unless a third party can be charged in court, the case will have to remain open and it would be “premature and imprudent” for the police to comment, according to criminal lawyer Joe Giglio. Speaking on the radio over the weekend, veteran forensic expert Anthony Abela Medici questioned why the police had not yet wrapped up the investigation, saying they had turned down his offer of assistance. But Dr Giglio pointed out that murder takes 20 years to be time-barred so the case can remain open indefinitely just in case a fresh clue crops up. “We have seen recent investigations being solved after many years because someone has spoken up, either out of remorse or guilt, or because they felt so much time had passed that...