'Serial killer' gets another life sentence

Saviour Mangion, 47 of Zejtun was condemned to a second life sentence today after having been convicted on Thursday of his third murder. Jurors had unanimously found him guilty of murdering spinster Mario Stella Magrin in her house 25 years ago. The elderly woman was stabbed 13 times during a robbery.  Mr Justice Lawrence Quintano said he had considered the horrible death suffered by Ms Magrin and the fact that the accused was ruthless and showed no remorse. Mangion has already been jailed for life for killing 54-year-old Rożina Zammit on February 8, 1984, in her Safi home. He stabbed her about 40 times. Mr Mangion is also serving a 21-year jail term for the murder of his neighbour Frenċ Cassar, 74, and the attempted murder of the victim’s sister, Ġuża Cassar, on August 18, 1998. Prosecuting lawyer Nadine Sant from the Attorney General’s Office said on Thursday that the unanimity of the verdict was “very rare” and he should receive a life sentence. She highlighted the fact that just two years before this murder he had committed his first by killing Ms Zammit. Both murders were for money, she added.  Judge Joseph Galea Debono, she recalled, had described him as a serial...