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mt survey TRUTH IS OF NO COLOUR WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT/COVID19 SUNDAY • 6 DECEMBER 2020 • ISSUE 1101 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY 12-13 Christmas ideas The simple joys of a wooden toy could be the year's find PAGE 15 €1.95 maltatoday KURT SANSONE BERNARD Grech has recorded his lowest trust rating since September as he and Robert Abela lose the Novem- ber budget bounce, the latest Malta- Today survey shows. Grech registered a trust rating of 30.1% in the December MaltaTo- day survey, a decrease of 1.4 points for the Nationalist Party leader over last month's performance. Likewise, the Prime Minister lost 1.6 points to achieve a trust rating of 46.8%. The result leaves the gap between the leaders almost intact at 16.7 points. In November, the gap stood at 16.9 points. Grech hits low point, Gozo swings to Abela Trust barometer A violent reality Lawyer Mary Muscat says women start on the back foot in the law courts MT2 Euthanasia Humanists say it is time to open a dialogue on end- of-life options for people MT2 MATTHEW VELLA THE former lawyer to one of the men accused of assassi- nating Daphne Caruana Gal- izia, had advised the family of Vince Muscat 'il-Koħħu' to vis- it the Office of the Prime Min- ister for the official New Year's greetings in December 2018. As it happened, also present at the same event was Melvin Theuma, the middleman whom alleged mastermind Yorgen Fenech tasked to deal with the triggermen who killed Caruana Galizia by car bomb. Lawyer Arthur Azzopar- di, who dropped his brief for Vince Muscat shortly before the arrest of Yorgen Fenech in November 2019, confirmed that he had advised his wife and daughter to face Joseph Muscat over the accused's demand for a pardon, at the official Yuletide greetings at Castille. The revelation of the chance encounter was made by Jo- seph Muscat himself on Fri- day when appearing before the Caruana Galizia public inquiry: according to Muscat, right after Theuma greeted him at the ceremony, Vince Muscat's family stepped for- ward. The family says they are un- aware of the 'coincidental' meeting, raising questions as to how that event drew both the assassination's middle- man and the family of one of the accused at the same time. PAGE 4 Lawyer Arthur Azzopardi claims he was unaware that Melvin Theuma was present at the 2018 Christmas greetings event which he advised Vince Muscat's family to attend to get face-time with prime minister Joseph Muscat Former Koħħu lawyer advised family to use Christmas greetings events to ask Joseph Muscat about pardon, where assassination middleman Melvin Theuma was also present Kohhu lawyer set up family for Muscat Christmas greetings