The businessman accused of paying for hitmen to murder the journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was impatient for the killing to take place, and once texted from his boat to say he was “preparing champagne” to celebrate, a jury in Malta has heard. View image in fullscreen Flowers placed in front of a portrait of murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia during a vigil outside the law courts in Valletta, Malta. The two men were friends, having known each other for years, although Theuma told the jury it was not an equal relationship. “Alfred got into my taxi and I told him ‘I have someone who wants to kill Daphne Caruana Galizia’. He is on trial in Malta for complicity in the murder of Caruana Galizia.