More damage at Romeo Romano gardens

A boy has admitted to damaging a statue in the middle of a fountain at Romeo Romano Gardens in Sta Venera, saying the damage was caused when he hoisted himself to get a ball.

Mayor Elizabeth Vella told timesofmalta.com that residents called at the council on Tuesday evening to inform councillors that a group of youthshad vandalised the statue, which had been beheaded in an earlier spate of vandalism.

The councillors informed the police and went to the gardens where they found a group of young people, one of whom - a minor, admitted to damaging the statue while getting a ball.

The police are investigating.

A few days ago vandals used drip irrigation pipes to pull down a statue in the middle of another fountain in the same garden.