The jury in the case of a former Christian Brother who denied charges of indecently assaulting a primary school boy in the 1970s reached verdicts of not guilty yesterday after two-and-a-half hours of deliberation.

The former Christian Brother on trial on charges of indecently assaulting a primary school boy in the 1970s testified yesterday that he might have put his arm around a boy by way of encouragement but he denied anything of a sexual nature.

A former Christian Brother has gone on trial in Cork on charges of indecently assaulting a primary school boy in the 1970s. The judge and jury were told yesterday of the complainant’s nightmares of ghosts of men in black.