Former scout leader in Cork claims accuser in indecent assault trial is 'a fantasist'

The complainant is now 48 and said he was 13 at the time of the alleged indecent assault.

Michael Noel Sheehan (pictured) has denied the charge at Cork Circuit Criminal Court of indecently assaulting the boy scout on a weekend away in Glenville. Photo: Cork Courts Limited

A 76-year-old former scout leader said the man who accuses him of indecently assaulting him as a 13-year-old scout in the mid-1980s is “a bit of a fantasist”. 

Michael Noel Sheehan, also known as Noel Sheehan of Chimneyfields, Glenville, County Cork, denied the charge at Cork Circuit Criminal Court of indecently assaulting the boy scout on a weekend away in Glenville between January 7, 1986, and April 31, 1987.