'Am I going to prison, Ma? - Three remanded in custody after being accused of hold-ups

Three young men have been remanded in custody after being accused in court of carrying out a string of hold-ups from convenience stores and a lotto booth between January and this month. Kane Grima, 20, who works as butcher, Perrie Daniel Amarni Sciberras, 27, who is unemployed and Josef Galea, 19, who carries out gypsum works, stand accused of aggravated theft of €1,021 and 22 packets of cigarettes from  Drinks and More in San Ġwann. All three live in Gżira. The trio also stands charged with holding the shopkeeper under arrest and against her will and obtaining stolen goods in order to sell them. Mr Sciberras and Mr Grima alone stand charged with the aggravated theft of €1,943 and of 600 euros worth of mobile phone top-up cards from The Convenience Store in Msida, with unlawfully keeping under arrest three people and conspiring with one or more persons to commit a crime. Mr Grima and Mr Galea stand charged with the aggravated theft of €900 from The Convenience Shop in Gżira, of €2,868 from Tal-Kantuniera Convenience Store in Gżira and of €1,021 from a lotto booth in San Ġwann. They are also stand charged of keeping under arrest four people against their will and of stealing two...