The youths claimed that they had taken it from St Mary's, where they had discovered it placed on a spike, with bones laid around it "in the pattern used for the Black Mass", as it was described in newspaper reports of police statements.
They had taken it from St Mary's. This was what the youths claimed, with bones laid around it "in the pattern used for the Black Mass", as it was described in newspaper reports of police statements. They had discovered it placed on a spike.