Garda ‘harassed woman with sex flyers’

AN office worker wept openly yesterday as she told how she went from one phone box to another, collecting explicit hand bills featuring her name and telephone number and claiming she offered sex for sale.

Garda Anthony Fennelly, aged 39, stationed in Waterford, denies he harassed Amanda Cox, aged 28, on two dates in November 2003. He has also pleaded not guilty to a second charge of theft at her home on September 16, 2003.

A copy of a flyer circulated in phone boxes claiming Ms Cox offered sex for sale was found jammed in a photocopier at the garda station where Gda Fennelly worked. His fingerprints were also found on some flyers. Shredded material found in a bin at the station was later pieced together to make up more flyers.