The police have managed to solve all murders committed in 2020, in a year where for the first time a father was charged with killing his son.
It is the second successive year where the police recorded a 100 per cent success rate, and the first time this has occurred since 2004, according to crime historian Eddie Attard.
Six cases were solved last year and three in 2019 – in other words, the police mounted prosecutions in all the murders that took place, although they are all still pending a court judgment.
Last year was not an extraordinary one for murders in terms of numbers: the six cases left seven victims, equal to the number of victims in 2018 and lower than the eight lives claimed in 2017.
One woman was killed in 2020, meaning a lower ratio of femicides than previous years.
The murder victims in 2020 were Chantelle Chetcuti, Amoubi Joseph Ezechi, Victor McKeon, Saviour Gaffarena, Antoine Dalli, Christian Pandolfino and Ivor Maciejowski.
Attard observed that the number of foreign murder victims has increased in recent years, with two registered in 2020.
He said 2020 also saw the first case of filicide in the country, when Antoine Dalli was allegedly shot dead by his...
