A 61-year-old Somali was today jailed for 20 months after he admitted to stealing cash from the donation box at the St George Preca Church in Blata l-Bajda.
Farah Said Hirsi also admitted to handling stolen property and committing the crime during the operative period of a suspended jail term.
Mr Hirsi was in a group of five people when the crime was carried out.
Three are still unkown and the other was minor who had been given a two-year jail term suspended for four years.