Line of Duty: How Daphne Caruana Galizi's murder inspired Gail Vella's story

Daphne Caruana Galizia was 53 when she was murdered with a car bomb in Malta in 2017One Twitter user asked Mercurio directly about the similarities between the fictional case of Vella and the realThey pointed out that Vella and Caruana Galizia drove the same model of car, had a similar profession, and may have been killed because of a similar motive.

"My mum loved British cop shows and I can imagine coming home to find her watching Line of Duty," Caruana Galizia's son Matthew wrote in response to Mercurio's exchange with the fan. The 53-year-old had driven her Peugeot 108 just 300 yards from her family home in Malta when a bomb placed underneath the driver's seat detonated, killing her instantly.Forensics experts near the wreckage of Caruana Galizia's burnt out car in Bidnija, Malta, in 2017A huge explosion flipped the car off the road into a nearby field on October 16, 2017.

He specifically called out several of the Mediterranean island's most prominent politicians — including then-prime minister Jospeh Muscat — for beingMuscat eventually resigned in the wake of Caruana Galizia's murder — but the legal battles of bringing her alleged killers to justice are far from over.

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