A man in his 70s has appeared in court charged with a sexual assault in Donegal.<\/p>\n
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared before Letterkenny District Court.<\/p>\n
Sergeant Jim Collins gave evidence of serving the defendant with a book of evidence.<\/p>\n
He is charged that on a date between January 1, 2021 and January 31, 2021, at a location in County Donegal, he committed a sexual assault, contrite to section 2 (1) of the Criminal Law (Rape) (Amendment) Act 1990.<\/p>\n
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has consented for the accused man being forwarded to the next sitting of Letterkenny Circuit Court.<\/p>\n
Judge Emile Daly returned the man for trial, administered the alibi warning and made a section 56 order relating to interviews.<\/p>\n
The accused man was present in court, but did not speak during the brief mention of the case. He was represented by solicitor Mr Frank Dorrian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 70s has appeared in court charged with a sexual assault in Donegal. The man,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-413142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}