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The former partner of 31 year old lawyer Margaret Mifsud found dead in her car at Bahar ic-Caghaq on Thursday afternoon is in police custody as he is being investigated in connection with her death. He is in hospital after feeling unwell during police questioning. Intense police investigations into Mifsud’s death are continuing. Yesterday’s autopsy on her body is inconclusive and further toxicological tests will be carried out but there are strong indications that her death is not due to natural causes.

Her friends say that for many years she has been molested by her former Libyan partner.

They find it unacceptable that the police arrested her former partner a month after an incident of 24 March 2012 where he held her against her will, harassed her and threatened her. But court sources have told malatstar.com that her former partner ahs been charged with this incident before her death. he will appear before Magistrate Claire Stafrace to answer for these charges in June.

These friends know how her partner bullied her constantly while she suffered in silence. One of her friends has told maltastar.com: “I call this murder through bullying.”

She used to take her two kids to a public place in San Anton Gardens for them to see their father and her former partner and she was so scared of him that she would ask to be escorted.

Yesterday the police arrested her former partner – a Libyan man – about an incident that happened between them a month ago. The police are expected to charge him with illegally arresting her, slightly injuring her, harassing her and threatening her.

The police investigators are giving a lot of importance to the fact that her handbag was not found in the car where she was found dead on Thursday afternoon.

On Wednesday evening at 11.30pm she was still at a social function at Fortress bar and restaurant at Xemxija Bay. She took her secretary home but she never went back to her mother’s home and went missing till she was discovered dead at Baħar iċ-Ċagħaq.

Update: Results of Dr Margaret Mifsud’s autopsy revealed that she suffered a heart attack, however the autopsy is inconclusive, the police confirmed with ONE News. Other tests, including toxicological ones, will be carried out. There are strong indications her’s was not a natural death.

Earlier on Friday: A Libyan man – Dr Margaret Mifsud’s former partner – has been arrested and is being investigated for holding her against her will on 24 March 2012. He will be charged with illegally arresting her, slightly injuring her, harassing her and threatening her.

The police investigators are giving a lot of importance to the fact that her handbag was not found in the car where she was found dead yesterday afternoon. On Wednesday evening at 11.30pm she was still at a social function at Fortress bar and restaurant at Xemxija Bay. She took her secretary home but she never went back to her mother’s home and went missing till she was discovered dead at Baħar iċ-Ċagħaq.

The post-mortem carried out on her body is going to be crucial to throw light on how she died.

Friends of the dead lawyer cannot understand why the police have arrested her former partner about the incident of 24 March 2012 only now, when it is too late as she is dead. They know how her partner bullied her constantly while she suffered in silence. She used to take her two kids to a public place in San Anton Gardens for them to see their father and her former partner and she was so scared of him that she would ask to be escorted.

Thursday – Margaret Mifsud, a 31 year old lawyer was found dead in a car parked near  at the Coast Road, Baħar iċ-Ċagħaq, police said.

It is understood that the police are looking for the dead woman’s former partner, probably a foreigner, in connection with her death. At the moment, the cause of her death is unknown. An autopsy will be carried out in due course.

The mother of two girls from Birkirkara was discovered on Thursday afternoon by the police.

A magisterial inquiry is underway.

Police investigations are ongoing.

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]]> http://randallbutisingh.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/thought-for-today-156/ Fri, 02 May 2008 09:08:52 +0000 randallbutisingh http://randallbutisingh.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/thought-for-today-156/ THOUGHT FOR TODAY

CLOTHING IN CIVILISED COMMUNITIES

This article written in the sixties when male teachers were allowed to remove their jackets in school; later they were allowed to come to school without jackets, but they could wear a shirt-jac or shirt and tie… During the seventies, the tie was discarded.

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In an article captioned “Mini-skirted teacher” by Lucian, I would like to add that clothing in civilized communities is not only an article for the protection and adornment of the body, but it has a religious and cultural significance as well.

Among the religions, there is a tendency to dress in a manner which is sexually sobering, hence the purdah which is an extreme system of covering the whole body, including the face, by Muslim women. The shalwar and sari of the Hindus are garments which cover the whole body, but are elegant in appearance.

On the other hand, the tendency of primitive peoples is to wear as little clothing, if you may call it so, as possible. In most cases, only the regions for which Eve and Adam improvised their attire with the leaves of the fig tree are covered.

The argument that this or that piece of garment is superfluous or inconvenient cannot hold water. Usage and adaptability will take care of that.

Guyana is a hot country and from the point of view of suitability where comfort is concerned, would be that worn by the Arawaks. Our belles will be cool and attractive in the outfit worn by Miss Guyana for world scrutiny; but after all we are civilized, and this type of apparel, notwithstanding its practical utility, will be regarded as indecent.

The teaching profession calls for a certain dignity in appearance, and this dignity is dictated by convention and as Lucian rightly said, obligation. Dignified clothes hide contours, even deformities, both of which attract either salacious or morbid interest.

In our society the use of the tie as a cultural symbol is voluntary in certain categories of workers, but obligatory in the teaching profession where it is the duty of the members to maintain cultural standards.

Teachers are not models for fashion in the classroom. Fashion is an ephemeral phenomenon. Its designers pander to the excitement and attraction which current taste can reject. Teachers, too, must not initiate changes, but must confirm to what is accepted by society.

The time for discarding the tie by the male, even if reason prompts, and for permitting teachers to dress unconventionally and without modesty has not yet arrived. Let whatever is dignified and decent in apparel be retained in the classroom until such time as custom otherwise decrees. Perhaps a dignified national costume may be evolved.

Footnote: When a Miss Guyana entered for a Miss World contest in the seventies, she displayed what was worn by the Arawaks, an indigenous Amerindian tribe in Guyana.

.  - Randall Butisingh

 

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