Five persons, four of
whom are Maltese, are assisting Police in investigations concerning the murder
of a 25-year-old Russian woman reported Net News. The young woman’s corpse was
lifted from the
sea off the former Chalet outrock on
the Sliema Promenade on Thursday.
Police
have established that the woman visited
Malta regularly and ad applied for a
Visa. The Swieqi apartment in which she resided has also been located.
Police
have also managed to establish that the woman was killed on the ground and subsequently
thrown into the sea. However it is still unclear why the murder or murderers covered
the Russian national’s head with a black bag.
On Saturday, Maltastar
reported that the woman could have been involved in a prostitution circle. Thus
the police are also working on the thesis that she could have been murdered by
a “client”, Maltastar continued.
It is believed that the woman has been in
Malta for around a year. She could
have also worked in Paceville.
The case is being
considered as a highly sensitive one, with the Maltese Police cooperating with
the Russian embassy.
An autopsy carried
out on the woman’s body soon after she was retrieved showed that she bore
strangulation marks around her neck and bruises to her face. Investigations are
being led by Assistant Commissioner Emanuel Cassar and Inspectors Chistopher
Pullicino, John Ellul and Daniel Zammit.
