Jail for thief who tried to steal bomb plaque
A LITHUANIAN who tried to steal a plaque honouring two children killed in an IRA bombing was jailed for 18 weeks yesterday.
Spartakas Grachauskas, 25, tried to prise off the metal plaque on a memorial in Warrington, Cheshire, to Tim Parry, 12, and Johnathan Ball, three, who died in the 1993 outrage in the town.
But Grachauskas, who planned to sell it for scrap, was seen on CCTV and confessed to police. Manchester magistrates heard he had already been jailed for 10 months on May 14 for a burglary in December.
There was an outcry earlier this month when another plaque was stolen from the memorial by thieves who are still being hunted by police.
Tim Parry’s mother Wendy yesterday welcomed Grachauskas’s jailing, saying: “He got what he deserved.”