Trial of gardaí accused of assault nears closing stages

The trial of four gardaí accused of breaking into a flat and assaulting its then-teenage occupant has reached its closing stages at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Gardaí Alan Conlon, Eoin Murtagh, Claire Delaney and Sean O’Leary have pleaded not guilty to forcing entry at a Basin Street Upper premises, entering as a trespasser and assaulting Mr Owen Gaffney (aged 21) causing him harm on February 17, 2008.