Fines for men who solicited sex from gardaí

A judge yesterday rejected a defence claim that a major Garda operation in Limerick in which gardaí posed as prostitutes was entrapment.

Convicting two men at Limerick District Court of soliciting sex from undercover gardaí, Judge Eugene O’Kelly said there was a particular scourge of prostitution on the streets of Limerick.

“I accept the gardaí are under considerable pressure to do something about this particular evil and I am satisfied they are entitled to mount the operation they did,” he said.