The youngest daughter of a murdered lawyer scribbled in a copybook that her father was the “worst dad in the world” and that she “hated” him, a jury heard yesterday.

Clutching a doll, the child appeared in video testimony taken in January 2014, when she was aged nine – two years after her mother, Margaret Mifsud, was found strangled in her car in Baħar iċ-Ċagħaq after a night out with her colleagues on April 19, 2012.

Under cross-examination, the girl said that the family lawyer had suggested she write down her memories so as not to forget.

She said that, like her sister, she had also shown the copybook to her grandmother, adding that she now referred to her as “Mummy”. The girl recalled speaking to “Nizar” – as she consistently called her father – on Skype the same day her mother had left for Xemxija.

He asked me where Mummy was going. I told him the name of the restaurant

“He asked me where Mummy was going. I told him the name of the restaurant and the place.”

Asked whether anything else was said after she told him the location, the girl said the conversation ended because the accused told her that he had to go to work.

She recalled that the last time she saw her mother, she was in tears because she wanted to go to sleep beside her mother, as she was used to doing every night.

One of the last conversations with her mother centred on what the latter would wear for the evening and whether her hair would be tied up or left loose.

Before leaving, Dr Mifsud instructed her mother and two children to phone her on her friend Astrid Bonnici’s number, because she would be switching off her mobile phone.

“I phoned her on Astrid’s number but there was no reply.”

The case continues.