Man went at gun after garda find

WHEN told a handgun had been found in garda searches of his back garden, a Limerick man, whose grandson is on trial for murder, tried to get at the weapon, the Central Criminal Court, sitting in Limerick heard.

Greg Crawford, aged 23, of St Munchin’s Street, St Mary’s Park, Limerick, denies murdering Gareth Brosnan-Grant, aged 25, at St Ita’s Street, St Mary’s Park, Limerick, on October 8, 2007.

On the day after the murder, a garda search was carried out in the back garden of 97 St Munchin’s St, St Mary’s Park, where Paddy and Catherine Kennedy, grandparents of Greg Crawford, resided. During the search, a gun was discovered wrapped in a glove.