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15/01/2013
Garda Sargent Wins Sexual Assault Appeal
A Garda sergeant has won his appeal against his conviction for sexually assaulting a female colleague.
49-year-old Martin Woods had pleaded not guilty to a sexual assault charge but had been convicted and fined €1,000 following a hearing at Dublin District Court last March.
The sergeant, who has 29 years’ service in An Garda Síochána, then lodged an appeal to the Circuit Court aimed at overturning that conviction.
The woman had claimed he groped her before saying to her: “I’d say you’re some screamer in bed.”
At the appeal hearing yesterday Judge Terence O’Sullivan held that his conviction should be quashed as there was insufficient evidence that the manner in which he touched the officer constituted an act of indecency and the remark said to her afterwards could have been interpreted as a joke comment.
(H/GK)
49-year-old Martin Woods had pleaded not guilty to a sexual assault charge but had been convicted and fined €1,000 following a hearing at Dublin District Court last March.
The sergeant, who has 29 years’ service in An Garda Síochána, then lodged an appeal to the Circuit Court aimed at overturning that conviction.
The woman had claimed he groped her before saying to her: “I’d say you’re some screamer in bed.”
At the appeal hearing yesterday Judge Terence O’Sullivan held that his conviction should be quashed as there was insufficient evidence that the manner in which he touched the officer constituted an act of indecency and the remark said to her afterwards could have been interpreted as a joke comment.
(H/GK)
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