Missing evidence leads to collapse of sexual assault trial

A Dublin teacher accused of sexually assaulting a then seven-year-old boy at least once a month for two years has been found not guilty by direction of the judge after a vital piece of evidence went missing.

Missing evidence leads to collapse of sexual assault trial

A Dublin teacher accused of sexually assaulting a then seven-year-old boy at least once a month for two years has been found not guilty by direction of the judge after a vital piece of evidence went missing.

The 62-year-old accused has pleaded not guilty to eight counts of indecent assault on the boy in a Dublin primary school between September 1967 and June 1969.

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