Nicolette Ghirxi's family lawyer, Joseph Borda, has filed a report against the Foundation for Social Welfare Services (FSWS) with the Information and Data Protection Commissioner over a press release it published on Tuesday.

The Foundation issued a statement denying allegations that its professionals had ever discouraged Nicolette Ghirxi from taking a risk assessment. In doing so, FSWS published affidavits from its risk assessors. FSWS published the declaration form Ghirxi signed back in April of this year, while she was speaking to professionals as part of a domestic violence report at the police depot, where the professionals said she did not want to undertake a risk assessment. These were also posted onto social media.

 "The publication of this form is in breach of Data Protection regulations and goes against all basic ethical standards," Borda said.

Times of Malta had previously published a story containing information in a voice note sent by Ghirxi to a close friend of hers, with Ghirxi describing how she was advised against conducting a risk assessment, since "there are no threats but insults." The newsroom wrote that she was advised at the police headquarters to phone the risk assessors again should Johnston, her eventual killer, contact and harass her later on.

FSWS continues to deny that they ever advised Ghirxi against having a risk assessment conducted.

Ghirxi was found dead in her apartment earlier this month on 12 August, allegedly stabbed to death by her ex-partner, 50-year-old Irishman, Edward Johnston. Johnston was killed later that evening during an altercation with the police after waving a fake firearm at them.