Jesmond Aquilina, 42 of Cospicua was today jailed for a year after admitting to stealing a handbag from a church in Vittoriosa and relapsing.

Magistrate Neville Camilleri in considering sentence, noted that the accused had a voluminous criminal record and he had admitted to relapsing.

The court recommended that he be held at Mt Carmel Hospital.

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