Man spared jail for lewd acts in toilets of M&S and HSE contact tracing centre

Defence solicitor Michael Kelleher said this is how his client understood how to meet other people

The judge has already heard that gardaí set up surveillance of the toilet area of the M&S department store after it became known for similar activity, and several other men have already appeared before the same court. File photo

A cleaner, who performed lewd acts in front of an undercover garda in a Dublin department store toilet and an HSE covid contact tracing centre worker, has avoided jail.

Ianos Carolea, 37, from Romania but with an address at The Hermitage, Balgriffin, Dublin 13, pleaded guilty to masturbating in public, at the Marks & Spencer, on Mary Street, in Dublin city centre on June 8, 2021, and at the HSE contact tracing centre at the Heuston South Quarter, Dublin 8, in December 2021.