Man Who Stole Human Skull and Kept It as ‘Curiosity’ Sentenced to Jail

Man Who Stole Human Skull and Kept It as ‘Curiosity’ Sentenced to Jail
Lucas Dawe, centre, appears in provincial court in St. John's on June 19, 2019. Holly McKenzie-Sutter/The Canadian Press
The Canadian Press
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ST. JOHN'S, N.L.—A young Newfoundland man who robbed a human skull from a cemetery and kept it in his possession for more than a year as a “curiosity item” has been sentenced to four months in jail.

In a hearing Wednesday, provincial court Judge David Orr also ordered Lucas Dawe not to re-enter the Anglican cemetery where he took the skull from inside a mausoleum-style tomb.