Updated: Lawyer's murder - accused followed victim on the night she died

A man accused of killing his former partner had a history of harassing her and  twice forced his way into her car in the days before she was found dead, a court was told this morning. Inspector Keith Arnaud was giving evidence in the compilation of evidence against Nizar el Gadi, who is accused of the murder of lawyer Margaret Mifsud. She was found dead in her car in Baħar ic-Cagħaq on Thursday April 19 after going to dinner with friends. Inspector Arnaud described how Dr Mifsud was reported missing by her mother at 8.30 a.m. on April 19. Dr Mifsud had been out for a dinner with friends and dropped off one of her friends at 11.30 p.m. Before leaving home Dr Mifsud had told her mother that she would switch off her mobile not to let her former partner bother her, but she gave her mother a friend's mobile phone number in case she needed to speak to her. The accused used to live at their house until being ordered to leave following an incident on March 24 when he allegedly tried to strangle Dr Mifsud. The inspector said the accused had intercepted Dr Mifsud on Monday and Tuesday of the week that she died. On the Monday he entered her car when she called to pick up their children. An...