Woman ‘angry’ when told file was never sent to DPP

An alleged victim of clerical sexual abuse has told the trial of a detective charged with forgery she was angry when she found out that a file on her case had never been sent to the DPP.

Wicklow detective Garda Catherine McGowan, aged 48, has pleaded not guilty to one count of forgery on January 15, 2009, at Bray Garda Station, and two counts of using a false instrument at Bray Garda Station and at Harcourt St Garda Station between June 21 and 22, 2011.

The instrument is alleged to have been a letter from the office of the DPP, dated January 14, 2009.