A Filipino woman who suspected the fidelity of her partner murdered him in Malta.
She told the court the man was having an affair.
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The accused Mayumi Santos Patacsil has been charged with murdering Marcelino Montalban Saraza, her partner of four years, and fabricating and tampering with the evidence to file a false police report.
Saraza was found dead on Triq il-Fortizza in Mellieħa in July. The victim’s colleagues and friends pointed to jealous behavior on the part of Patacsil as a reason for the murder.
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Two of Saraza’s friends informed the Court that the accused was always jealous and that she would regularly accuse him of having another partner.
The woman’s landlady testified that she had informed her to find another apartment after receiving complaints from other residents over an argument she had had with Saraza in which she was accusing him of having an affair with another resident of the block. (AW)