Suspect asked police if admitting to murder would give him less jail time

57-year-old Hungarian national Laszlo Nador Marton had asked his police interrogators whether admitting to murdering his partner Yvette Gajda last November, would lead him to receive a smaller jail term, a court heard this morning.

Police Sergeant Christian Xuereb told Magistrate Neville Camilleri that the accused had asked about what was to become of him should he admit to stabbing Gajda 60 times with a pair of scissors during an argument, while he was being sutured for lacerations to his chest.

Marton admitted to self inflicting the wounds to his chest, except for one which was allegedly made by the victim, shortly before he managed to take the scissors and turn them onto her.

According to Sgt. Xuereb from the Qawra Police Station, Marton was found next to Gajda, face down and in a pool of blood in the narrow corridor of their rented apartment in St. Paul's Bay.

While he was admitted to hospital, he could not speak a word of English and an interpretor had to be called, after paramedics couldn't communicate with him.

When cautioned by the police, Marton asked for legal aid and was later interrogated.