Three Years Jail For Killing 12 "unusual and exotic display birds"

Glen Conroy, aged 21, a Skerries alcoholic was sentenced 3 years jail by Judge Patricia Ryan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for killing 12 "unusual and exotic display birds". He broke into an aviary and killed the birds by pulling their heads.


At first he drank 12 cans of beer and a litre of vodka then he and an accomplice broke into Newbridge House in Donabate, which contains an aviary for exotic and rare birds.


Detective Garda Aidan McGuire said mutilated and killed 12 "invaluable and irreplaceable" birds worth €2,670 and several of them cannot be replaced because it is forbidden to import them due to the bird flu epidemic in Asia. Four birds also escaped from their enclosures and were not recovered.


He had 38 previous convictions including ones for firearms offences, burglary, assault and robbery.