Care salesman denies assaulting customer

A jury has been told that a car salesman assaulted a client who returned a car he had bought and then directed the bank to stop the €23,750 repayment cheque.

Shane Lyons (aged 37), of Three Rock Grove, Rathfarnham has pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to stopping the cheque on a date between May 18 and May 27, 2005.