Video | Jockey charged over Mgarr murder

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Gafa is said to have murdered his former girlfriend in a fit of jealousy as he followed her to Zebbiegh, limits of Mgarr to meet her new boyfriend.

He allegedly got out of his car, walked to his former girlfriends car and shot her twice through her car window, critically injuring her in the neck. She died an hour later at Mater Dei Hospital.

40 year-old mother Christina Sammut had dumped Gafa a month ago, however he kept calling her and following her, until he noticed that she started seeing another man and went into a fit of jealousy.

Sammut was shot as she sat in her parked Citroen Berlingo van while allegedly waiting for her new boyfriend who was just a few metres away from her, but the two didn't see each other.

Gafa meanwhile turned up, got out of his car, fired two shots through her window and drove off. 

He later turned himself in to the police at the Hamrun Police Station and was immediately arrested and later transferred for interrogation at the CID headquarters in Floriana where he reportedly released an admission to the shooting.

Gafa, who is well known at the Marsa sports track is also a father of two young children.

The murder has shocked the community in Rabat as Christine Sammut was popular, given that she also ran a coffee shop and snack bar in the village centre.

Her daughter Caricia posted a message on her mother's facebook page yesterday morning saying: Last Christmas ♥ I love you mum forever xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx i miss you so much..i wish i still could hug you and feel your warmth.. :( im soo sad mama without you, you left me now i just cant feel anything..the world is on my shoulders ...i miss you soo much xx

Meanwhile, police investigators returned to the crime scene on Sunday and reconstructed the events that unfolded which led to the murder in Mgarr. A weapon - allegedly used in the murder - was also recovered

The shooting is the fourth serious crime this month, after businessman Joe Baldacchino was shot in the back after parking his car in Valletta; the bomb explosion in the offices of Transport Malta that injured two men, and the hold-up on  a jeweller' Gold Market in Attard by an alleged suspect in the HSBC heist who had recently been granted bail.