John Dacoutros writes:

About 200 mourners came to wish Victor Albanozzo their last au revoir in Balluta church, but nobody there knew him more than I did.

At the age of 13, we both met at Luqa airport on the same day in September and both of us flew to Heathrow on our way to Belmont Abbey, Hereford. We both spent our last three years of schooling there.

[attach id=689890 size="medium" align="right"]In 1956 at Seaford, England.[/attach]

We had plenty of nice days at Belmont and also enjoyed ourselves travelling during our holidays. It made us what St Aloysius College could not do enough.

Victor was always hard-headed and wanted things his way. When I wanted to travel one way, he always had another choice. I cannot forget the day we were in Seaford and fought real boxing because he wanted something different to mine. But, good or bad, we both got along in life and both of us finished school properly.

He later joined his brother, Joe, and their father in a business in Valletta. I continued at the University of Bristol.

Victor was a car lover and enjoyed the latest Japanese and German models. He also managed to get hold of the nicest girls around at the time and married a darling of a girl, Gloria. In 1973, I was at my peak in film-making and picked on Gloria as the main actress for my 16mm, colour film Bitter fragrance, which won her Best Actress Award in that year’s National Film Competition of the MACC.

Victor was adventurous. He lived shuttling between Malta and Bulgaria, seeing most of Europe.

He had one amazing daughter, Faye.