A police officer described on Tuesday how a white piece of file paper turned red when dipped in a darkish patch of liquid beneath a silver Peugeot model belonging to Mario Farrugia, whose badly decomposed body was found inside its boot in April, a court was told. Police Sergeant Andrew St John was testifying in the compilation of evidence against 38-year-old Elliot Paul Busuttil, from Attard, who is pleading not guilty to murdering the 62-year-old taxi driver who was reported missing a few days before his body was found. At a previous sitting, Farrugia’s brother had told the court how days before his disappearance, the victim had voiced concern about two particular clients who underpaid him. Farrugia was trying to offload them, telling his brother that he believed that the pair were “involved in drugs”. Mario Farrugia’s badly decomposed body was found in the boot of a car in Qormi. Inset: The accused, Elliot Paul Busuttil Days after that conversation, the man’s lifeless body was discovered inside the luggage boot of his vehicle. An autopsy subsequently confirmed that he had suffered some 40 stab wounds. On April 5, a police sergeant and two constables from the St Julian’s...