Five Spanish youths charged with skinny-dipping

A group of five Spanish students admitted in court to skinny-dipping in the early hours of this morning.

According to the charges brought against them, the five teenagers - aged 18 and 19 - were accused of committing an offence against moral decency and for having committed the act in a public place.

While hearing the prosecution, the Magistrate asked the boys whether "they realised that this cannot be done in Malta" - to which the teenagers nodded in understanding.

"No one wants to see these things. They [the boys] should all be going to Church at 7am and not skinny-dipping," Magistrate Antonio Micallef Trigona remarked, perhaps with some po-faced humour.

When delivering his sentence of one-month conditional discharge, the magistrate added that they can do "whatever they want to in Spain".

The boys will be back home on Thursday.