Mosta cat killer leaves note behind

Investigating officers have found a note - placed in the cat's outer skin layer - left by the Mosta cat killer.

On 3 February, a cat and a dog were found crucified at about 6.45am on the Mosta church parvis and in Triq il-Knisja, Mosta, respectively.

The note speaks about the alleged torment the perpetrator has been suffering for the past 48 years, perhaps caused by a love denied.

He writes about he the hopes he once had, to find a woman who would both love and care for him and bear his children... who would also take care of him.

But things didn't turn out as he planned: he laments being tormented by the demon of a woman and also accuses God of abandoning him. The author of the note adds that people's chatter and talk tortured him.

Similar notes had been found in past cases.

According to inewsmalta, the animals had already been dead before they were crucified. The police however were not in a position to say what had caused the animals' death.

Yesterday, the police released the CCTV footage showing an unidentified person hanging the cat and dog.

The 13-minute video, which collates CCTV footage from around the Mosta church area shows the alleged cat killer surveying the church parvis at around 1:28am.

He is seen clambering over an external statue, possibly trying to identify a way of hanging the animal carcass.

The police is attempting to create a better quality of the person's identity as seen at 4:50 minutes into the CCTV video, where he is closest to the CCTV camera.

Another CCTV camera, indicating the time of 4:23am, shows the culprit appearing behind the church and running to the street to survey the area once again. He is wearing a pair of blue jeans and black hoodie. It is unclear whether he is masked.

He then runs back, and returns minutes later to hang his carcasses.

The police said that whoever has any information, regardless of how insignificant it may seem, is being encouraged to contact the police even in confidence, on telephone numbers 119, 2122 4001 or 2294 3551 or any other means they deem most convenient.

The police are also investigating the possibility that the acts - going back to 2011 - may have been carried out by different individuals. Several theories have emerged on the profile of the perpetrators, even not excluding that "a plot might be in place to target a particular man and put him in bad light".