The husband of a woman who was shot dead in Corradino was arrested early on Wednesday in a raid on his residence after a standoff lasting 17 hours. Armed officers wearing protective clothing blasted their way into the house at 2.30am while firing a number of flash blanks. Roderick Cassar, 41, was arrested unharmed but was still given a medical checkup on the scene, the police said. Police officers were also unhurt. The gun allegedly used in the murder was recovered. The operation followed several attempts to get Cassar to give himself up, Cassar is the prime suspect in the murder of Bernice Cassar, who was shot twice on a road behind the MCAST campus in Paola as she was driving to work. Her body was found outside her white Nissan Qashqai. The couple had two children and a troubled history. Bernice Cassar had filed several domestic violence reports against her husband, leading to the police pressing criminal charges against him last May. A court ordered Roderick Cassar to not approach his estranged wife, but he repeatedly violated that protection order. Times of Malta is informed that the murder victim had tried to get the police to act as recently as Monday. At a press...
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