Defiant teen tells police: ‘prepare for more work once I’m out of jail’

Testifying before Magistrate Antonio Micallef Trigona, Inspector Roderick Agius said that he was shocked to hear 18-year-old Melvyn Montesin from Siggiewi tell him to prepare "for more work" once he was released from custody.

Montesin - who was arraigned last month together with his 19-year-old brother Roderick over an alleged theft of a number of objects from a scrapyard in Siggiewi - was returned to a court room on Wednesday to face his prosecutor who presented evidence to the case.

The youth smirked in further defiance as he sat with his brother in Magistrate Micallef Trigona's courtroom.

"We had just left the court building on our way to Corradino, when Melvyn told me that he was not interested in rehabilitating," Inspector Agius said, adding that Montesin also vowed to persist with crime to give police "more work to do".

Montesin's mother and sister - who attended the sitting - were seen commenting and contradicting the Police Inspector as he testified.

The boys, he said, were arrested after they were spotted by an off-duty policeman loading their Hyundai car with cables and other materials they were taking from a private scrapyard in Siggiewi.

The two remain detained under preventative custody.