Fabio Psaila still on the run, police search in Kalkara fruitless

Police investigators Friday received a tip-off into the whereabouts of fugitive Fabio Psaila, one of the suspects in the hold-up on the Goldmark jewellery in Attard, but failed to locate the suspect.

L-orizzont reports that several units from the mobile squad were despatched to the small village of Kalkara, led by Inspector Anthony Agius, surrounding Marzebb and Werrieq streets.

Officers wore bullet-proof vests as a precaution against any armed response, but searches in garages, apartments and other establishments proved negative.

Psaila was injured from shots fired by Silvio Mizzi, the son of jeweller Michael Mizzi, during a hold-up on 8 December with Darren Debono, 33, aka ‘it-Topo’ – the latter, a suspect in the botched HSBC heist of June 2010, had been out on bail.

Mizzi is said to have injured Psaila with the firearm he was carrying, which he managed to disarm in a tussle with Psaila. Debono was also injured by the firearm.

L-orizzont said police sources believe Psaila is disguising himself as a woman.

In November 2003, Psaila was sentenced to 100 months’ imprisonment by a Sicilian court in Catania on the trafficking of 4kgs of cocaine and a kilo of marijuana.

On 17 September 2008, he was arraigned on assault of two police constables, for which he was released on a €2,000 bail – his defence counsel as David Gatt, who is being charged as the mastermind of the Balzan HSBC branch heist of 2008, the botched HSBC heist back in June, and the Attard jewellery hold-up.