Woman granted bail after admitting to stealing over €3k in car stereos
A woman who admitted to stealing over €3,000 in car stereos from a Tarxien store over several months was on Wednesday granted bail as she waits to be assessed over claims she suffers from kleptomania.
Kleptomania is a mental health condition where a person is unable to resist urges to steal items.
The 28-year-old from Xghajra, who has five children, was on Wednesday released from arrest pending a pre-sentencing report to assess her social situation, including her mental well-being. This is not the woman's first case of alleged theft.
Kleptomania, evident from her criminal record sheet, has previously landed her in trouble with the law, her lawyer told court on Wednesday.
This time around, the manager of a Tarxien store filed a police report at the end of August, claiming that a woman was stealing car stereos from his shop.
The thefts had allegedly been going on for quite some time, but the alarm was only raised when several people asked him whether stereos being sold on Facebook's Marketplace belonged to him.
At first, the shop owner ignored those messages, prosecuting Inspector Sarah Kathleen Zerafa told court.
But when the man finally checked CCTV footage at the shop, he...