Quite coincidentally I am currently living in Malta, and have for about nine months now. The place is... quixotic. The whole economy depends on tourism, internet gambling, offshore companies, and real estate (driven by the first directly and the second two indirectly).

This journalist’s death occurred well before I arrived but one does not need to look hard to the marks she left: there’s graffiti and stickers mentioning ‘Daphne’ all over the place. The prime minister Joseph Muscat was eventually forced to resign in January of this year over her death.

And yet, there’s a general sense that this case will never be satisfactorily closed, that the full story will never come to the surface, that the truth will never be known.