Garda wanted revenge after insult, says rape accused
A 30-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting and attempting to rape a man in his 60s blamed a garda for the case against him claiming the detective who arrested him was motivated by revenge because the accused once called him “a retard”.
The accused said today that, in 2016, one year before the alleged sexual incident, which he denies, he was verbally abusive to Detective Garda John Paul Twomey, calling him “a retard”. He said that was why the detective arrested him in October 2017 and charged him in relation to attempted rape and sexual assault.
