Speaking in Parliament on Monday evening, Opposition Leader Bernard Grech paid tribute to his recently deceased uncle Edwin Grech.
Edwin Grech, a former Labour Minister and father of murdered Karen Grech, died last week at the age of 94.
“For thousands he was a politician and a doctor. For a few he was an uncle and a father. For me he was my hero,” Edwin’s nephew and Opposition leader Bernard Grech told parliament.
Edwin Grech had returned to Malta in 1977 at the height of the doctors’ strike and was appointed professor and director of the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at St Luke’s Hospital, in effect breaking the doctors strike.
He was then seen as a marked man. Tragically, his fifteen year old daughter Karin died when she opened a parcel bomb that had been delivered to their home just after Christmas Day in 1977.
In a passionate speech, Nationalist Party leader Bernard Grech said of the bombers, “If you are listening, you should be ashamed.”
File photo: Opposition Leader Bernard Grech
