Sex attack trial witness 'shown photo before identity parade'

A witness has told a Central Criminal Court jury that gardaí showed him a photograph of a man two months before he made an identification at a formal parade in a Cork garda station.

Mr James Cummins (aged 22), who worked at Statoil service station on Leitrim Street in Cork city at the time of the alleged incident, was under cross-examination by Mr Blaise O’Carroll SC, defending, in the case of a man accused of sexually assaulting a French woman in Cork in 2000.