Inconclusive autopsy on body found in Mellieha

Forensic experts are expected to carry out further tests after the autopsy on the body found at l-Ahrax, Mellieha, yesterday afternoon was inconclusive.

This means that the body has not yet been identified.

Meanwhile, a Russian man is being held by the police in connection with the investigation.

The grim discovery was made yesterday afternoon after police received information that a car belonging to a missing man, Pawlu Grech, had been spotted at l-Ahrax tal-Mellieha.

Traces of blood were also found a few metres away from the car and the body appeared to have suffered knife wounds. After hours of excavation, the Police managed to pull the body which was stuck in a crevice. The body had been covered with garbage bags.

Grech went missing nine days ago when he was last seen in Bugibba.