Army captain appeals sexual assault conviction over missing CCTV footage

The offences occurred when the captain attended a barbeque hosted by the Covid Joint Task Force during the covid-19 pandemic lockdown

Captain Ross O’Shea was found guilty by a General Court Martial in October 2022 of sexually assaulting a female non-commissioned officer (NCO) following a social function at a barracks in Leinster on June 25, 2020. File Picture: PA

An army captain has appealed his conviction for sexually assaulting a female soldier at a military barracks four years ago, arguing that missing CCTV footage meant he was “robbed” of a possible line of defence.

The State has argued that CCTV footage could not add anything to the established facts and that the area of contention is “vanishingly tiny”.