Three held over animals theft

Three people aged 20, 24 and 30 are helping the police in their investigations into the theft of animals from Ir-Razzett tal-Hbiberija, in Marsascala last week, the police said.

The police did not exclude the possibility that the three people in custody will be arraigned in the coming days.

The park had reported that unknown persons had broken into the complex, killed a deer and stole 13 animals that were used in therapy sessions with children with disabilities.

The intruders had removed the barbed wire and scaled the boundary wall at the back of the park on September 30. The stolen animals consisted of three barn owls, two golden pheasants, four mountain goats, a young mountain goat, an Amazon parrot, a rabbit and a monkey.