Garda did not take mobile phone for evidence, court hears

A garda sergeant has revealed she did not take the phone belonging to a Galway woman who alleges she was raped by a Czech national, because she assumed it would have no evidential value.

Garda did not take mobile phone for evidence, court hears

A garda sergeant has revealed she did not take the phone belonging to a Galway woman who alleges she was raped by a Czech national, because she assumed it would have no evidential value.

The sergeant said gardai also did not seize phones belonging to other people the complainant said she called between 1.45am and 2am on July 28, 2007 in a Co Galway town, at the time she alleges she was raped.

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