Girl describes Easter Sunday shooting threats by foster father

A man who allegedly threatened to shoot his daughter and two other minors when family tensions bubbled over on Easter Sunday suspected his estranged wife was having a relationship with the natural father of their foster daughter.

Details of that violent incident and the events leading up to it began to emerge on Friday when the 15-year-old girl, long-fostered by the Għargħur couple, gave a first-hand account of that episode which landed the 37-year-old man, whom she looked upon as her father, in custody. 

She said that she always got along well with the accused who would tell her off when she did not do her homework, or disobeyed or answered back.

Trouble brewed when the girl told her mother, the accused’s wife, that she wished to spend some time on Easter Sunday with the man she believed to be her natural father.

The girl apparently first got to know the identity of her natural parent when the man himself approached her foster mother and expressed his wish to meet his offspring.

Witness says accused wanted her to choose between him and natural father

But until DNA tests proved their biological link, the minor was told by Appoġġ that she could only meet the man in the presence...