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Sliema snatch-and-grabs, Police charge three with killing elderly woman for €25
Three cocaine addicts were denied bail and ordered to be kept at Corradino Prisons by a Magistrate, after being charged with the death of an elderly woman who was robbed of €25 when they snatched her bag and dragged her with a car.
19 December 2010, 12:00am
Karl Stagno-Navarra
Karl Stagno-Navarra
1 min read
Charlie Brincat, 30, of Cospicua, Richard Attard, 29, of Birkirkara and Bernice Camilleri, 21, of Qawra pleaded not guilty to stealing a handbag from the 80-year-old, Rose Garroni of Sliema, at around 6.45 p.m. on December 8.
They also pleaded not guilty to stealing another handbag from 88-year-old Maria Cassar, at around 8.15 p.m. on the same day and of being in possession of cocaine.
Brincat and Attard also pleaded not guilty to relapsing.
The three were arrested following intensive investigations by the CID who merged their suspicions with a report that was received from a nurse at Monte Carmeli Hospital who listened to Charlie Brincat talk about the Sliema incident while attending an alcohol rehabilitation programme.
In court,Police Inspector Chris Pullicino from the Homicide Department, who was prosecuting together with Insp. Anna Maria Micallef, told the court that the first mugging took place in Dingli Circus in Sliema.
The three went to Sliema without money and thought about stealing from somone.
Their first target was Rose Garroni, who resisted them and dragged her with their car as they snatched her hand bag. They left her for dead on the doorstep of her apartment, and she remained in a coma and died in hospital last week..
The accused, Inspector Pullicino said, used the money to buy cocaine and returned to commit another theft later.
Requests for bail were immediately turned down.
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These scum should be locked up and the key thrown away.
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One hopes that this scum will be proven guilty, as I'm sure they are but it remains to be proved in court, and given a sentence of many many years behind bars. As far as I can see, this is the only medium that has reported the car dragging which shows the total disrepect for life of these criminals. These people are beyond reform: they willingly became drug addicts, planned a crime to satisfy their addiction and had no regard for the life of another person. I hope the court will not be moved by some tear-jerking pleas of deprived childhoods and all that nonsense. Many have deprived childhoods but do not resort to such barbaric means to get money. Slam them behind bars for ever and abolish the reduction of sentences for "good behaviour". Can such filth ever behave well? They are beyond redmption. Tougher sentences, tough judgements and no more talk of parole is what the majority of Maltese want. Otherwise it might be the state that may have to answer for this unprecedented crime wave.
Alfred Galea •
If found guilty, they should spend at least 20 years in prison. And congratulations to the magistrate who turned down their request for bail immediately.
Now, we'll hear from the bleeding hearts who'll blame society for these scumbags' descent into the sewer if not the government too.
