Thief caught red-handed

A man was caught trying to steal a stereo from a bus parked at the Valletta bus terminus this morning.

The police said that a bus driver noted a suspicious man on a bus at around 10.30 a.m. and he boarded together with another. driver They caught the man trying to steal a stereo but as soon as he realised he was not alone, the thief escaped from a window which he broke for the purpose.

As he was jumping he lost a number of coins.

The traffic policeman who was on duty at the terminus arrested the 30-year-old man who holds Maltese citizenship but was born in Libya.

Nothing was missing from the bus the alleged thief had been on but a small sum of money was missing from one close by.