A Libyan man suspected of killing his estranged wife Silvana Muscat bought the knife used in the attack just hours before the brutal stabbing.

Nour Hamid, 35, is still on the run after police named him as the prime suspect in the murder of Ms Muscat, 36, who last Thursday was found dead in a pool of blood in her St Paul’s Bay apartment bedroom. Ms Muscat died after being stabbed twice in the back and three times in the chest.

Sources said they believed Mr Hamid purchased the murder weapon from a shop in St Paul’s Bay not long before she was killed. An autopsy result concluded that the time of death was Wednesday evening. The knife was found by the police in the common area leading to the roof of the apartment block.

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