Updated 5.45pm with lawyers' reaction
Fears that crucial evidence in the case of murdered teenager Karin Grech had gone missing have turned out to be a false alarm.
A judicial protest was filed on November 17 by Edwin Grech, his wife Pearl and son Kevin formally holding the Attorney General, Commissioner of Police and the Director General of Courts responsible for the disappearance of a crucial piece of evidence: pieces of the envelope which contained the explosive, which had apparently gone missing from the courts.
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The Attorney General, Commissioner of Police and the Director General of Courts onFriday filed a reply in Court saying that investigations had turned up the evidence which was in the custody of the inquiring magistrate.
The lawyers for the Grech family, Franco Debono and Amadeus Cachia, said the family had been told more than once by the police over the past year that the documents could not be found.
Karin Grech was killed by a letter bomb in 1977, and the inquiry into her death is still ongoing. She was just 15 years old.