Former garda damaged Bronze Age burial mound

A retired garda is likely to have “removed and disturbed human remains” when he damaged a Bronze Age burial mound in County Wicklow, a court has heard.

Tony (also known as Thomas) Hand, aged 69, had denied interfering with the national monument at Carrig, Blessington, by taking stones from the protected site on the night of May 4, 2011.

However following a week-long trial at Bray Circuit Court, he was convicted yesterday of criminal damage to the prehistoric stone circle.