‘My conscience did not let me rest’ – mugger speaks of guilt at victim’s death
A mugger and drug addict who caused the death of an 80-year-old woman in Sliema for a mere €20 reported his crime to the police because he said his conscience would not let him rest. Rose Garroni, 80, was found lying unconscious and in critical condition on a pavement in Dingli Circus after her handbag was snatched in December 2010. She died a few days later. Her aggressor, Charles Brincat, said that as soon as he found out about her death he wanted to report the incident to the police. Brincat took the witness stand on Wednesday in the trial of 33-year-old Bernice Camilleri, who was with him in a car driven by her boyfriend Richard Attard on the evening of the mugging. In 2015, Brincat pleaded guilty to theft aggravated by violence resulting in death and was sentenced to 13 years in prison. Attard was sent to jail for 12 years on the same charges in 2016. Camilleri is facing trial without jury after pleading not guilty to being an accomplice. Brincat testified on Wednesday that the other two had called for him at Mount Carmel Hospital where he had been receiving treatment for drug and alcohol abuse, while being allowed to go out on day leave. After stopping to buy wine they...