Fabio Psaila in police custody

The super fugitive Fabio Psaila has given himself up on Boxing day. He was followed to the police HQ and accompanied by police officers.  He gave himself up at 7pm.  He was later escorted to the hospital.

Fabio Psaila was one of the suspects in the hold-up on the Goldmark jewellery in Attard.

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.

Police had believed that Psaila had disguised himself as a woman.  He is said to have lived for some time with Tracy a transvestite from Marsa.

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.

After turning himself in, Fabio Psaila was immediately arrested and interrogated, while he is also being interrogated this morning by senior investigators.

He is expected to be charged in the coming hours.