Karin Grech (1962 – 28 December 1977) was the daughter of Professor Edwin Grech, then head of the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at St. Luke's Hospital, Malta.In 1977, aged 15, she was killed by a letterbomb addressed to her father. In the presence of her brother Kevin (then 10 years old), she opened the package, which she thought to be a present since it was covered in wrapping paper. The bomb exploded, and she died half an hour later at St.