No jail for Garda who attacked female colleagues

A probationer Garda has today been 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.

Michael Crowley (aged 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.