‘Gangs trawl funeral sites to find targets’
FAMILY CAUGHT BURGLARS AT DEAD RELATIVE’S HOME
Winters would instruct the girl to watch it and then ask her if she would be willing to carry out the acts, the court heard.
During the online relationship, which lasted until 2018, Winters met the girl on two occasions, during which he had her give him oral sex.
Winters, of Blackhall, Glynn, Co Wexford, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexually defiling the girl at locations in Cork and Waterford on dates between April 2013 and April 2014.
Mr Justice David Keane sentenced him on the count related to the defilement of a child under the age of 15 to six years’ jail and two years for the defilement of a child under the age of 17, both to run concurrently.
He suspended the final two years of the sentence. are using funerals to strike
A FAMILY caught a lowlife gang trying to burgle a late relative’s home just days after their death — as gardai have warned over a new ‘funeral trend’ crime.
Grieving locals in Galway have become victims in a spate of burglaries carried out by thugs who are suspected of prowling funeral details online for information on recently deceased people.
Councillor Andrew Reddington told The Star about a case in Headford involving a family who were the target of a robbery just days after a death in the family.
Members of the family had been staying at the home of an elderly relative who had passed away just days previously when a burglar attempted to break in.
“The chances of this happening just days after the owner of the home passed away without criminals using sites for address information from funerals are slim to none”, Cllr Reddington told us.
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“Burglars are trawling funeral sites to steal from houses of the dead.
“I was in contact with the Gardai at the weekend after an attempted house burglary took place in Headford at the house of a deceased person.”
NEW images show the burnt out remains of cars at Luton Airport’s car park six months on from the blaze that ripped through the structure last year.
The mangled remains of vehicles can be seen in the multi-storey — but somehow a €93,000 Porsche remained unscathed by the inferno.
The short-stay car park — which is still in the process of being demolished — caught alight in October after a diesel car became overrun with flames.
The blaze destroyed over 1,400 cars, and needed more than 100 firefighters to tackle the fire at its height.
What these lowlife criminals were not expecting was for there to be family members mourning in the home.
“The intruders scattered when interrupted because a family member had still been at home after the funeral,” Cllr Reddington said.
He said it is “open season” for burglars who “trawl through funeral sites to see when masses are on and all the details are on the website”.
Cllr Reddington urged the public not to post the Eircode of a deceased person’s home on funeral sites.
“It’s an invitation for robberies,” he warned.