Teacher charged over Walsh claim

A DANCE teacher was charged with making a false accusation that he was groped by X Factor judge Louis Walsh in the toilets of a Dublin nightclub.

Father-of-two Leonard Watters, aged 24, who is from Navan, Co Meath, but has no fixed address, was arrested in his home town on Tuesday, after allegedly making an unfounded claim to gardaí that the pop guru had assaulted him in the Krystle nightclub following a Westlife concert in the O2 in April.

Dressed in dark blue jeans and a black jacket, he was brought before Dublin District Court yesterday charged under section 12 of the Criminal Law Act 1976 for making a false report to gardaí, on June 20 last at Harcourt Terrace Garda Station in the city centre.