Abuse case ruled ‘basically unstable’

Man, 74, directed to be found not guilty on 36 sex assault charges.

A woman claimed she was sexually assaulted repeatedly as a child by man who was in a relationship with her grandmother and that her granny facilitated the abuse.

The accused man, who is now 74, denied 36 charges of sexual assault over a nine year period throughout the 1990s and was put on trial before Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin and a jury of six men and six women of the jury at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.