Garda spared criminal conviction for assault on colleagues

A probationer garda will be spared a criminal conviction and a possible jail sentence for attacking two female colleagues, who intervened when a drunken “mess” fight got out of hand, if he pays €1,000 to charity.

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