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Garda told colleague to cover up assault

Summary by Extra.ie
A Garda sergeant was convicted of assaulting a man in custody and of trying to cover it up by ordering a junior colleague to falsify records, a new report has shown. The Garda Ombudsman’s 2024 annual report was published on Wednesday and gave examples of serious cases its investigators had to probe. The detainee alleged that while being held in a Garda station, he was assaulted by a sergeant who had not been involved in his arrest. A Garda serg…
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Extra.ie broke the news in on Thursday, October 2, 2025.
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