Raymond Caruana was a Maltese

Malta

Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...

 Nationalist Party

Nationalist Party (Malta)

The Nationalist Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in Malta, along with the Labour Party. It was founded by Fortunato Mizzi in 1880 as the Anti-Reform Party, opposing taxation decreed by the British colonial authorities and measures to Anglicise the educational and the...

 activist, murdered at the Gudja

Gudja

Gudja is a village in Malta with a population of 2,901 . The village is located on a small hill south of the city of Valletta overlooking Malta International Airport....

 club headquarters on 5 December 1986, at the age of 26.

While at the PN club in Gudja, Malta, a car drove past the club, firing several shots. One bullet fatally hit Caruana in the throat, killing him.

Peter Paul Busuttil

Peter Paul Busuttil

Peter Paul Busuttil is the Mayor of Hal Safi, Malta.In 1986 Busuttil was accused of the murder of Raymond Caruana, a Nationalist activist, after shots were fired towards the Nationalist Club of Gudja. It later transpired that Busuttil was framed by the police.-References:...

was charged with the murder. It later transpired that Busuttil had been the victim of a police frame-up. A second man, Nicholas Ellul, was also charged with the murder however he died of an overdose before his trial began.