The following are the top stories in national newspapers today.

Times of Malta says the father of a German teenager found dead at the foot of Dingli Cliffs in July last year has asked the Police Commissioner to investigate a court expert who failed to explain why his son’s body was returned to his family with most organs missing. The newspaper also reports about the courtroom drama yesterday as a second magistrate abstained from hearing evidence against the three men charged with Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder.

L-Orizzont says that Ms Caruana Galizia’s case has now been passed on to a third magistrate.

The Malta Independent says Partit Demokratiku voted against its own motion to reverse an extension to the hunting hours at Majjistral Park after an amendment moved by the Nationalist Party was approved.

In-Nazzjon says the Nationalist Party convinced the government to vote in favour of its amendment.