“Time to pull the shutter down.”

PC Mario Portelli recounting how ex-policeman David Gatt, who is accused of masterminding various major hold-ups, planned to kill former President Eddie Fenech Adami over his dismissal from the force.

“Another silly call.”

How Dr Fenech Adami reacted to news about the assassination plot against him.

“Feels like someone with a blow-lamp, burning your foot.”

Major Peter Ripard, who lost his leg in the Transport Malta bombing, on the post-amputation phantom pain he is suffering.

“I can only see her in my dreams... I wish I could turn back time.”

Caricia Sammut, who was orphaned after her widowed mother Christina was allegedly murdered by her ex-boyfriend, on her sadness.

“Murdered for just a few euros”

Relatives of Rose Garroni, an independent 80-year-old who was mugged on her doorstep in Dingli Street, Sliema, and left to die in a pool of blood.

“Women are programmed to feel dependent on men.”

Herbert Messina Ferrante attempting to put men’s minds at rest that “women are still happier being cared for by a powerful man” in reply to a previous column warning men to beware in the battle of the sexes.