A young woman murdered last month accused her brother of having raped her and was hell-bent on having him sent to jail, her father told court on Wednesday.
Paul Bonnici, who is serving time for murder, also described his murdered wife of having been a troublemaker and appeared to sympathise with his son Joseph, who stands accused of having killed them.
“You do not do that sort of thing for no reason,” he told the court.
Mr Bonnici recalled how his daughter Angele and Joseph did not get along.
“I feared that I would die and she would file a case against him,” he told the court.
Joseph Bonnici stands accused of having murdered his mother Maria Lourdes and sister Angele late in March, shooting them in the head using a homemade gun which a ballistics expert testified was designed to take 12 to 16 gauge shotgun pellets.
Police testified earlier this month that they believe he meticulously planned the double murder, luring the two women to his house to kill them, hiding the bodies and then getting back to bed so that his girlfriend would not suspect anything was wrong.
On Wednesday, the court placed him under a bill of indictment.
Tensions between siblings
During that sitting, Mr…
