Gardaí face legal actions over alleged assaults

GARDAÍ are facing two separate legal actions for compensation over allegations of assault on people in custody, including one from the family of a young teenager who died in a Tipperary garda station.

The parents of Brian Rossiter, 14, from Clonmel are planning to sue the State over his death in September 2002 while being held at a local station.

Pat and Siobhán Rossiter are unhappy with garda claims their son died as a result of injuries he had sustained in a fight with an older man two days before his arrest.