Pelin Kaya's mother: ‘I couldn’t see her, but I could hear her voice’
The grieving mother of Pelin Kaya, the young woman murdered on her birthday, recalled how she could hear her daughter’s voice when she visited the Gżira site where a driver rammed into her last month. “I couldn’t see her, but I could hear her voice. She was telling me: ‘mum what are you doing here?’ It’s very heavy’,” Çiçek Kaya said. The mother spoke to Times of Malta on Monday, hours after she and other family members attended court to hear the first sitting of the compilation of evidence against Jeremie Camilleri. Camilleri has been charged with Pelin’s murder, after ploughing his black BMW into her before crashing into a petrol station and a KFC restaurant. Shocking footage shows him walking away from the wreckage unscathed before proceeding to pelting his victim with stones. Çiçek arrived in Malta 12 days after her daughter, an interior designer, was killed in the 1am incident, just an hour after she turned 30. Speaking at the Turkish embassy in Floriana, Çiçek sat beside her younger brother, Aykan Ceylan, both wearing pictures of Pelin pinned to their black jackets. Speaking through an interpreter, the 61-year-old said she brought a bouquet of tulips, all the way from...