Ex-registrar admits €20k theft in ‘graves for sale’ case

A FORMER graveyard registrar has pleaded guilty to the theft and larceny of over €20,000 from Clare County Council in a “graves for sale” case.

At Ennis Circuit Court yesterday, Seán Leamy, aged 60, of Main St, Tulla, Co Clare, pleaded guilty to 49 counts concerning the theft and larceny of €20,022 from the council concerning the sale of burial plots at Clonlea Graveyard, Kilkishen, over a 10-year period.

Leamy had previously pleaded guilty to one sample charge of stealing cash of €317 from the council at Main St, Tulla, on July 20, 1999, in connection with the same offences.