Magistrate Neville Camilleri decided yesterday there was enough proof to put a Hungarian on a murder charge, relating to a killing in November.

Magistrate Camilleri heard the compilation of evidence against Laszlo Nandor Marton, 57, who is charged with killing Yvette Gajda, 38, of St Paul’s Bay. The accused had nine chest wounds on his left, Dr Rose Cassar from the Department of Emergency testified.

There was a language problem, with the patient not saying anything, she said. The wounds were in the form of lacerations, but the doctors could not say how they were caused, and did not know what had happened. Dr Cassar said the accused had even refused to give his name to the health authorities.

Sgt Alistair Xuereb testified that on 27 November he was working as a dirver at Qawra station and that at about 11.30am another sergeant told him there had been a fight in front of San Pawl Hotel. They went to the area but found nothing.

It then transpired they were in the wrong place and when they established where the incident had occurred, in St Paul’s Court, they went there and found two persons stretched on the floor, both motionless and in a pool of blood.

 Sgt Xuereb said he had not seen anything then because he had gone out to escort the ambulance to the spot in Triq Efesu. Afterwards he saw the scene, with the accused and the victim both lying back upwards on the floor in a pool of blood.

The right hand of the accused was on the victim’s body. In the corridor in the apartment there were the imprints of two hands in blood.

Shortly afterwards the accused moved. The accused told Dr Simon Micallef Stafrace that the victim had had enough of him and had attacked him with a scissors which lay on the computer. He had managed to remove the scissors from her hand and could then only remember seeing blood and he started hitting himself with the scissors.

Marton is represented by Dr Cedrid Mifsud. Inspector Keith Arnaud is conducting the prosecution.