Gardaí to stand trial in connection with alleged assault on teenager
Four gardaí will stand trial after allegedly assaulting a teenager, a court heard today.
Garda Alan Conlon, Garda Claire Delaney, Garda Eoin Murtagh and Garda Sean O’Leary, who are all based in Dublin city centre, have been charged with assault causing harm and forcible entry.
Three of the accused are also charged with false imprisonment.
The charges relate to an incident at Basin Street flats in the south inner city on February 17, 2008 where the teenager’s mother alleged her son was attacked and a complaint was later made to the Garda Ombudsman.
All four appeared briefly before Dublin District Court, where they were served with the Book of Evidence.
Judge Eamon O’Brien, who sent the defendants forward for trial at the next sitting of Dublin’s Circuit Criminal Court in June, ordered the addresses of the gardai not to be disclosed.
