Cork Garda claims he saw man driving and watching YouTube

Cork District Court Judge Olann Kelleher dismissed the case saying: “There is a doubt. I give the benefit of the doubt.”

Martin Maguire and his wife, Angela, said their six-year-old son was watching a kids’ show on YouTube. File photo

A garda looking out the passenger door of a patrol van had such a clear view down on the driver of a car that not alone could he see him holding a phone but he allegedly saw YouTube on the screen of the phone.

That was the evidence from Garda Seán Hallissey at Cork District Court.