Accused facing trial this year relating to a single charge of indecent assault alleged to have occurred between January 1987 and December 1988
The judge said the complainant made a statement to gardaí in December 2017 and a prosecution of the man was directed by the DPP in August 2021. Photograph: Getty ImagesA man has failed to stop his trial for alleged indecent assault on a child some 36 years ago.
‘I feel that it is possible to become Irish in a way it would never be possible to become German or to become Japanese’ The fact that the complainant had made several different disclosures to different services over many years meant an investigation and gathering of records was required before gardaí interviewed him in April 2019, after which further inquiries took place.
The accused also claimed the delay prejudiced him because the complainant’s mother, father and uncle, whom he says could have exonerated him and/or enabled him to challenge the credibility of the evidence against him, are all now dead. The judge said some of the psychologist’s conclusions were markedly different from the views of the man’s GP which were based on the records of his treating psychiatric team.
However, she said there was insufficient evidence that those medical issues, or any exacerbation of them since he first became aware of the allegations against him, can be safely attributed to the length of time it has taken to bring the complaint to trial.
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