Former Labour Minister Edwin Grech, father of letterbomb victim Karin Grech, has died aged 94.
His passing away was announced by his nephew, Opposition Leader Bernard Grech, on the social media. The PN leader praised his uncle as a person who worked hard for his ideasl.
“This was a person who only did good, and was paid back in the worst possible way, through the killing of his dearest daughter Karin," Grech wrote.
Karin was killed aged 15 when she opened a letter addressed to her father on 28 December 1977. Her father, a medical specialist, had at the time returned from the UK to work in government hospitals at a time when doctors were on strike.
Edwin Grech later served as minister for social policy in the Sant government between 1996 and 1998.
Prime Minister Robert Abela also offered the Grech family his condolences.