Former prisoner given fresh chance not to return to crime
Former prisoner Sandro Mifsud, 37, of St Paul's Bay today admitted in court to being an accomplice in the theft of two beach bags last month.
Mr Mifsud, who was recently released from prison after a 12 year term, was placed under probation for two years. Magistrate Doreen Clarke told him that this was an opportunity to start a new life and get rid of people who had been leading him astray.
She said he could not kick the drug habit on his own and needed help from a residential drug rehabilitation programme.
Mr Mifsud said that he could not leave his mother alone at home.
The magistrate asked Mrs Mifsud to approach the bench from the public gallery and told her that all of her help would still not be enough and that he needed the drug rehabilitation programme to completely kick the habit.
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a.dalli
Aug 17th 2010, 08:29
This is rediculas. What was his mother doing and how did she cope without him for 12 years?
Adrian Vella
Aug 17th 2010, 08:25
How can sombody still be addicted to drugs after 12 years in prison? Something does not tally here.
A Grima
Aug 16th 2010, 20:54
What comes to mind is that they want to call the Corradino prison a "Correctional Facility"
This is one clear example that the place is no correctional facility at all ..... after a 12 year jail term back to society to do it all over again.... drugs and all.
Another thing .... how come after 12 years in prison he still has the drug problem? He should be as clear as myself after all that time .... oops .... lest he was regularly supplied with drugs for the past 12 years... or am I missing something? Hope so.
A.Camilleri
Aug 16th 2010, 20:48
cant leave his mother alone at home, was she with him when he went robbing people?