Garda wins challenge against watchdog probe
Garda Brendan Dowling, stationed at Anglesea St Garda Station, Cork, had challenged a decision of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission to reinvestigate him arising out of the arrest of a 16-year-old at a shopping centre in Cork City two years ago.
Following a GSOC investigation of the incident, Garda Dowling and his colleague Garda Fiona Sheehan were charged with assaulting the youth, who was peppersprayed while resisting arrest. Those charges were dismissed following the youth’s cross-examination before Cork District Court last January. Both gardaí denied assaulting the youth.
