Former Dunnes Stores worker convicted of lewd act in M&S toilet

Accused exposed himself and masturbated in the presence of an undercover garda, court heard

Case followed an operation by gardaí, who had set up a surveillance operation following reports that men had been using the toilets in M&S on Mary St in Dublin for public masturbation and offensive conduct.

A man has been convicted of exposing himself and masturbating in the presence of an undercover garda in a major Dublin city-centre department store’s public toilet.

Gerard McVeigh, 43, from Clondalkin but of no fixed address in Dublin 22, had pleaded not guilty to an offence contrary to the Sexual Offences Act for public masturbation at Marks & Spencer on Mary St on June 16, 2021.