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maltatoday, WEDNESDAY, 25 JANUARY 2017 5 News 'filmed court told to the police. Inside it, they had found David Grant's credit cards and health insurance cards, In- spector Fleri said. The police were waiting for confirmation from the issuing institutions about whether they had been used since Grant's death. Data extracted from the wom- an's tablet and smartphone had shown pictures of Grant and Ayers, together with their medi- cations. There were seven videos of Grant. In one of them, the man was on the floor and the accused could be heard "interrogating" him as to why he was there and not using his walking stick, the inspector stated. In a later video, Ayers had appeared disorien- tated. Ayers's condition had deterio- rated in the eight days he spent with her, the witness asserted. On a video taken on the day be- fore his death, Mijalkovic could be heard asking him whether he loved her and wanted to go to England. There was also a vid- eo of the woman asking Ayers whether he wanted to be taken to hospital, to which he replied that he didn't. The inspector said the videos had led him to believe that the men had been held in "conditions of great negligence." The men had both been seen to be staring blankly in the videos, he said. In one, "Ayers was rasping so much that he is barely understandable." Mijalkovic had told the police that the men would administer the medicines to themselves. She confirmed filming Ayers and Grant several times, initially explaining that she "didn't want to be blamed for anything," later saying that she would be able to prove that they had refused to go to hospital. She had told police that she would receive money from abroad, the medicinals were bought from England. She later changed her story to say that Ayers had stayed in Malta be- cause he wanted to stay with her, inspector Fleri said. Defence counsel Yanica Bugeja cross-examined Inspector Fleri. Ayers had been on medica- tion for blood pressure and cho- lesterol, as well as aspirin. The medicines appeared to have been bought in the UK and no pre- scription had been found, he said. She had told the police that that the men would take the same pills. "She knew the men's dosage by heart." "Because I remember!" the ac- cused remarked. Maltese trucker dies in Italian highway accident MATTHEW VELLA TWO motorists have died in an Italian highway accident that claimed the life of a Maltese driv- er. The accident was one of two separate events which occurred a few hours apart on the same highway. Preliminary reports show that Emanuel Colerio's truck collided with another heavy vehicle, but did not overturn. The accident happened last Monday, after 3pm, on the A21 highway between Torino and Pia- cenza, at an intersection between the towns of Stradella and Castel- sangiovanni. The two victims had been driv- ing southbound towards Pia- cenza, when two heavy vehicles, including a truck carrying con- struction material, lost its bal- ance and crashed into another vehicle. The two drivers of the heavy vehicles, Angelo Ferrari, 55, and the Maltese driver, aged 59, lost their lives. A third motorist head- ing towards Stradella was injured in a subsequent accident prob- ably caused by the toppling of the truck. Fahrenheit Freight Forwarders, the company for whom Coleiro worked, is in contact with the relevant authorities involved in the matter. "Fahrenheit wishes to offer their condolences to the victim's closest friends and rela- tives," the company said. Emanuel Coleiro, 59, tragically lost his life in an accident that involved a number of vehicles on the A21 highway

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