Daphne Caruana Galizia: killer lays out murder plot in court

Vincent Muscat describes spying on the journalist and discussions about how she would be killed

The self-confessed killer of Daphne Caruana Galizia told a court on Thursday that he and two other men used binoculars and a telescope to follow the movements of the investigative journalist for days, before planting and triggering the car bomb that killed her in 2017.

Speaking in the presence of journalists and Caruana Galizia's relatives in hall 22 of the law courts in Malta's capital, Valletta, Vincent Muscat gave the fullest account yet of the plot to murder the journalist.