Family may move body as NI grave vandalised

Sectarian attacks on graves in a Northern Ireland cemetery have prompted a family to consider exhuming and moving the body of…

Sectarian attacks on graves in a Northern Ireland cemetery have prompted a family to consider exhuming and moving the body of a relative, a priest has said.

Fr Dan Whyte, the parish priest at St Mary's on the Hill Catholic Church in Glengormley, told the BBC that he had been approached by the family after their relative's grave was vandalised twice.

A number of Catholic graves have been daubed with graffiti by vandals.

Fr Whyte said he had warned the family that: "it's like burial all over again. I also said to them, if you're looking for a guarantee from me that such damage would not happen again, I'm afraid I would not be able to give it."