Grave thief sentenced to three years in jail
Marian Lingurar, with a former address in Loughgeorge, Claregalway, pleaded not guilty before Galway Circuit Criminal Court during a two-day trial, to 11 charges of handling various religious items at Loughgeorge, knowing they were stolen, on October 4, 2011.
The jury was instructed to return not guilty verdicts on three of the charges, by direction of Judge Rory McCabe, due to lack of evidence. They took just under two hours yesterday to unanimously find Lingurar guilty of handling the remaining eight items, knowing they were stolen and he was remanded in custody to yesterday’s court for sentence.
