Woman stabbed to death with scissors

A Hungarian mother-of-two was stabbed to death with a pair of scissors before her partner critically wounded himself in the chest yesterday. The mother, only identified by neighbours as 38-year-old Yvette, was found dead in her flat with more than 40 wounds to her neck on Ephesus Street, St Paul’s Bay, by police at 11.30am. A man, reportedly her Hungarian partner and father of her five-year-old daughter, was also found in the flat, having turned the scissors on himself, sources said. Neighbours said the two had been arguing loudly all morning and described hearing angry yells and the sounds of smashed crockery. The fracas died down at around 11.25am. Minutes later, an ambulance and police car were on the scene. A Hungarian family friend who also lived in the apartment reportedly witnessed the crime, along with the two girls, aged 17 and five. It is not known who called the emergency services. Forensic experts spent almost two hours at the crime scene gathering evidence. Magistrate Edwina Grima was also on site. She has ordered an inquiry into the crime but the police did not release the woman’s name. Investigators spoke to the Dutch owner of a bar next door to the victim’s...