Jury finds garda guilty of assault while colleague perverted course of justice

TWO gardaí will be sentenced in November after they were found guilty last night by a jury of offences arising out of an assault on a man on the street in January 2010.

Garda Daniel Hickey of Waterford Garda Station was found guilty after a four-week trial of assaulting Anthony Holness, causing him harm, while Garda John Burke was found guilty of perverting the course of justice.

The guilty verdicts are the first to be secured in a jury trial by the Garda Siochána Ombudsman Commission since that body came into being.