Garda lied about being at flat, sergeant tells court

A garda sergeant has today said that a member of her unit accused of trespass and assault admitted lying about being in a Basin Street flat a week after the alleged incident.

Sergeant Collette Wheeler said Garda Claire Delaney told her she had not been in any flat about an hour after a woman, whom she now knows as Fidelma Gaffney, came into the station and spoke of her son being assaulted by gardaí.