Man charged with theft of 800-year-old Crusaders' head

A 35-year-old man has been charged with burglary over the theft of the mummified head of a 800-year-old "Crusader" knight from a church in Dublin.

The Crusader was decapitated at the crypt in St Michan's Church, Church Street, sometime over the weekend of February 23 and 24 last and was taken along with another skull.