‘We want to know the truth’

Police investigations into the Sliema double stabbings on New Year’s Day 2012 have hit a brick wall as relatives yearn to know the truth one year on. Investigators have tried honing in on the motive by attempting to establish a link between the two dead men – Duncan Zammit, 32, and Nicholas Gera, 26 – and any of their relatives. “So far they have found none,” police sources told The Times. Mr Zammit was killed by Mr Gera in the early hours of New Year’s Day at his Sliema penthouse where he was sleeping with his wife and twin three-month-old babies. Investigations have so far failed to establish why Mr Gera, also from Sliema, entered the penthouse. The two men are believed to have killed each other in a fight with knives although forensic tests have cast doubt on who delivered the fatal blow to Mr Gera. This state of affairs has prevented family members from finding closure. Mr Zammit’s family declined to comment, while entrepreneur Anġlu Xuereb, speaking on behalf of his widowed daughter, said it would take “many more years” to move on from this ordeal. “We don’t want to make a big deal about it because even hearing about the case hurts us. You have to pass through an experience...