Update 4 - Murder trial: “I found your father and I think he's dead"

“I found your father and I think he is dead,” Maria Grech, the wife of murdered Gozitan lawyer Michael Grech told her daughter Deborah just moments after he was murdered outside their home nine years ago. Testifying in the trial by jury of David Zerafa, 39, of Nadur, who is pleading not guilty to murdering Dr Grech, 46, Deborah Grech said she was at home having supper with her brother when she heard a sound like that of a gunshot and shouts of ajma. Ms Grech said that as soon as her mother opened the door, she saw a hand holding a weapon. “I saw the weapon – I saw the barrel,” she said. She said her mother slammed the door and called their neighbour Maria Scicluna, as she thought that her brother Steve was playing a joke. Ms Grech said that as they opened the door they saw her father’s briefcase on the steps leading upstairs. “We then realised that he had come home,” Ms Grech said adding that she usually heard her father return home but this time, the wind was strong. She told the court that she and her mother searched the roof and the garage for her father – “we were looking for him to see what happened”. At one point, her mother left the flat and she followed her a few minutes...