Youth soccer coach seeks to halt indecent assault trial

The man is charged with indecently assaulting the then-schoolboy at the club house and on a soccer trip in the mid-1970s

Both alleged assaults are said to have occurred in circumstances where the accused, who was then aged in his 20s, was the coach of an underage football team on which the complainant played. File photo: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

A man accused of sexually assaulting a player on a youth soccer team he coached over 45 years ago has brought a High Court action aimed at halting his prosecution.

The man claims that due to delays by the Director of Public Prosecutions in bringing the matter before the criminal courts, an alleged failure by the DPP to properly disclose certain material to his lawyers and the passage of time he is at risk of getting an unfair trial.