“It is not easy to accept that among the rats who scurry on the peripheries of politics (and who sometimes make it to the inside) there are those who are capable of executing a plan to blow up another human being,” she wrote. “If the murderers are traced eventually—a really small probability—the parents of Karin Grech may find that they are in for yet more suffering, if that is possible. They will have to sit through a trial in which the accused is let off because of insufficient proof, or is given a jail sentence which does not measure up to the destruction, in ghastly agony, of a 15-year-old
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