Garda thought she would be choked to death by naval officer

A garda believed she would be choked to death when a “drunken” high-ranking British navy officer suddenly attacked her, the High Court has heard.

Garda Hilary Lynch, of Anglesea St Garda Station, Cork, told a Garda compensation hearing that in September 2010 she was in a patrol car escorting the drunken officer back to his ship at Kennedy Quay, Cork, when he suddenly grabbed her neck.

Mr Justice Raymond Fullam heard she thought the warrant officer Robert Nixon, attached to HMS Mersey, was going to kill her.