Jailed for complicity in muggings that led to death of 80-year-old

Updated 6.28am

A woman has been jailed for four years for being an accomplice in two muggings in Sliema 12 years ago, causing the death of an 80-year-old woman.

Bernice Camilleri, now 33, was seated in the backseat of a car driven by her boyfriend Richard Attard, when together with Charles Brincat the trio headed to Sliema and decided to carry out a robbery to get money for drugs.

The decision would prove to be a life-changing one. One of their victims, 80-year-old Rose Garroni, would end up dead a few days after Brincat snatched her handbag and pushed her to the ground in Dingli Circus. There was just €20 in the handbag.

They had no predetermined plan when they first decided to rob people, Brincat testified this week. 

He had suggested robbing someone and Attard, though initially reluctant, had agreed to go along with the plan. Camilleri barely said a word throughout the discussion, Brincat told the court. 

Brincat recalled driving through Sliema that December 8 evening and spotting an elderly woman on a pavement in Dingli Street. He rushed out of the car and snatched her handbag. 

When Garroni put up a struggle, he pushed her to the ground. Garroni was found later, lying...