Garda’s wife tells of horror of getting pig’s head in post

The wife of a serving Garda told a court yesterday that she was “afraid, disgusted, and horrified” when a box containing a severed pig’s head was delivered to her home.

At Ennis Circuit Court yesterday, Natalie O’Neill said she was “completely in shock” after her husband Garda Paul Heaslip opened the box and peeled back tin foil to reveal the pig’s head.

The couple made the discovery at lunchtime on Tuesday, January 31, 2012, at their home at the Percy French Estate in Kilkee.