Argument over accused's child led to Ħamrun murder

The violent argument which led to the murder of Brandon Pace outside his Ħamrun residence on April 2 was allegedly sparked off by a heated telephone exchange between the victim's partner and the grandmother of the accused's child earlier in the afternoon. This was said in court today during the compilation of evidence against Kurt Grech and his father Joseph, from Pietà, in relation to their alleged involvement in the violent episode which resulted in the murder of Mr Pace. On that fateful Sunday, the Grech family had spent the afternoon at the Marsa racecourse where their horse had won a trophy after placing first. The six-year-old son of Kurt Grech and his former partner Jessica Bilocca, was with his paternal grandparents when he spotted his maternal grandfather and uncle and begged to go with them. After granting the child's wish, Anna Marie Grech, his paternal grandmother, called the boy's mother to inform her. The call allegedly resulted in a slandering match since the boy's mother reportedly did not wish her son to visit her parents' home. She herself admitted later to the police that she had already "lost" her elder son who insisted on living with the grandparents and so...