Garda recounts violent sexual assault by man at Puck Fair

A FEMALE garda has told a court she was violently grabbed in the crotch by a married man who she was trying to arrest at Puck Fair, in Killorglin, Co Kerry, in the early hours of August 13, 2008.

The garda claimed the man was “manic”, saying he gripped and painfully squeezed her vaginal area as she attempted to bring him to the local Garda station soon after 2am.

Cyril Moriarty, aged 53, of Tulligbeg, Killorglin, has gone on trial at the Circuit Criminal Court, in Tralee, charged with sexually assaulting the garda, as well as assault causing harm and obstruction.