Former scout leader convicted of indecently assaulting boy scout, 13, in Cork

Michael Noel Sheehan had told gardaí that the man who made the complaint against him was “a bit of a fantasist.”

What the jury at Cork Circuit Criminal Court was not told was that another jury had failed to reach a verdict in the same case last year and that this was a re-trial. Photo: Cork Courts Limited

The 76-year-old former scout leader Michael Noel Sheehan has been convicted of indecently assaulting a 13-year-old boy scout in the 1980s.

Sheehan denied the charge and was put on trial before Judge Helen Boyle and a jury of nine men and three women. Sheehan told gardaí that the man who made the complaint against him was “a bit of a fantasist.” However, the jury did not believe this.