An Uzbek national who is serving a prison sentence has been jailed for another three and a half years after police linked him to an unsolved robbery in St Julian's in 2013.
Zaynitdin Abdusalamov, 48, was accused of having broken into the apartment, which was being used by the director of an aviation marketing company. Thousands of euros worth of jewellery had been stolen.
Investigators had found fingerprints at the scene but these did not match any of those found in the police database. The prints had been kept on file.
Abdusalamov was recently jailed for 15 months by a Gozitan court over a separate burglary.
When he was admitted to prison, his fingerprints were recorded and placed in the system.
This allowed the police to link him to the St Julian's burglary.
Abdusalamov was subsequently charged with the crime, with the charge aggravated by the means employed, the value of the items stolen and the place and time at which the crime took place.
The accused still denied the charges, insisting his fingerprints might have ended up inside the flat when he had been shown around while looking for a place to rent.
The court, however, noted that the apartment had been rented out since 2011.
The prints, the court heard, had been found on several parts of the door, including on the inside.
The court said it was not convinced that Abdusalamov had told the truth. He had not even offered the slightest explanation for the fingerprints on the inside of a door where he could not have legitimately been.
The fact that the accused had already been convicted of a similar crime also helped convince the court of the man's guilt.
Abdusalamov was jailed for 42 months, with the court ordering that he be removed from the islands once his time in prison is up.
Inspector Fabian Fleri prosecuted.
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