A police officer has been acquitted of assault and misconduct after tasering a naked man who threw a pair of underpants at him during a strip search.

A police officer accused of unlawfully Tasering a naked man who threw a pair of underpants at him during a strip search denied he had acted out of “revenge, anger or retribution”.

A police officer unlawfully Tasered a naked man who threw a pair of underpants at him during a strip search, a court heard.

A police sergeant who injured a woman when he assaulted her in a cell was jailed for six months today.

I AM curious to know about Richard Dowling of Mountrath in Co Laois.