Probationer Garda admits assaulting female colleagues

A probationer Garda will be sentenced in September after admitted attacking two female colleagues who intervened when a drunken “mess” fight got out of hand.

Michael Crowley (aged 27) who is from Blarney, Co Cork but attached to a Crumlin garda station in Dublin, pleaded guilty today to assaulting colleagues and former house-mates, Anne Marie Hennessy and Gillian McNulty, during an off-duty incident, on February 15, 2011.