Killer spent ‘minutes’ at crime scene before firing

The man who gunned down Paul Degabriele in Marsa on Friday spent several minutes hanging around the area dressed as a workman, according to police sources. Investigators believe the killer was foreign, primarily because he did not appear to go to extra lengths to cover his identity. Reports suggest he was dressed in a blue boiler suit with fluorescent markings. “If he was Maltese, he probably wouldn’t have carried out the murder in this way. He would probably have acted away in a quiet, dark place, to avoid being recognised,” sources said. Police have interrogated “several” people in relation to this case but are finding it difficult to draw any conclusions. “The difficulty is that this man had a lot of enemies. He was very suspicious of everyone and often with good reason. “We believe a good number of people wanted him dead,” a police source told Times of Malta. Although the gunman is said to have spent some time at the scene of the crime before firing five shots at Mr Degabriele, CCTV footage from the area was too grainy to identify him. Meanwhile, it emerged that theft charges against the victim had been filed in court, coincidentally barely an hour before he was killed. Mr...