Welfare official not guilty of coercion
Judge Keenan Johnson directed the jury to return the verdict after ruling the prosecution had not established that the complainant had been intimidated.
He stressed he was making no determination on the truthfulness of either the accused, Andrew Gilmartin of Drumfad, Grange, Co Sligo, or the complainant, Martha Rooney of Colleary Drive Sligo. She had alleged that the defendant asked her for her oral sex in return for her not being prosecuted for fraud, during an interview at the social welfare offices in Sligo on April 9, 2014.
