Another cat has been found crucified and hanging upside down from a cross in Mosta.

The cat, was found nailed to a wooden cross which was left hanging on a door in Baskal Buhagiar Street.

The incident was reported to the police at 6.50 a.m. this morning.

This is the fourth such incident since October.

Another cat was discovered crucified in Mosta on January 17. It had been found hanging to the gate of a chapel in Triq San Anton Abbati.

On October 16 a priest walking along Main Street found a dead dog nailed to an upside down wooden cross and pm November 16, a Chihuahua cross-breed was found crucified in the same manner on the gates of the oratory of the Sacred Heart.

In both cases there was a note in which the perpetrator said the suffering he or she had gone through was worse than that of the dog.

None of the crucified kittens had notes.

The first incident had led investigators to follow a potential link with a 1999 murder since the house where that puppy was found was where Franġisku Buhagiar, now aged 81, had shot dead his sister following a bizarre argument over burnt toast.

Mr Buhagiar, who served a 10-year jail term, denied any connection to the incident.