A MAN who alleges a garda buggered him has admitted to a jury that he travelled with the garda to Dublin a fortnight after making a statement to gardai saying he never wanted to see the defendant or talk to him again.
He also agreed he met the defendant last April in a Connacht town and brought him back to his flat. But he said he could not face up to telling that to a Garda inspector in a statement he made on May 8th last.
The jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court yesterday also heard a claim by an English hotelier that a person with the same name and address as the defendant checked into her hotel, the Wool Merchant in Halifax, on May 16th, 1995.
But, she said, the alleged victim checked into her hotel for two nights on May 28th, 1995, and left without paying his bill.
Another English witness also identified a computer printout indicating that a person with the same name and address as the defendant stayed at the Victoria Hotel in Bradford on November 24th, 1995.
At the end of his cross-examination the alleged victim denied a suggestion by Mr Barry White SC (with Mr William Fennelly), defending, that all his evidence was "a tissue of lies".
During his day long cross examination he repeatedly claimed he was forced by the defendant and by his own brother to write letters to the gardaf withdrawing the allegations against the defendant, a family friend.
He said he copied down what had been written for him by his brother in November 1994, and later in January 1995. One of the January letters was a withdrawal of the allegations and the second an alleged apology to the defendant.
He could not explain why certain words were misspelt the same way in the letters.
The alleged victim repeated several times he could not have written the letters himself because he could not spell difficult words.
Mr White suggested to him that if different people had in fact dictated the letters to him, or written them out, the same words would not have been misspelt in them.
He also could not explain why he told the jury he did not sit his Intermediate Certificate examination although, in November 1994, he told gardai he had
Judge Joseph Mathews asked the witness if he made a habit of lying. The alleged victim replied he did not tell lies often.
Earlier, he told Judge Mathews he could not explain why he did not tell the gardai on May 8th last that his brother wrote a letter for him to copy.
Mr White also asked him to explain three different explanations he had given as to how the letter of January 2nd, 1995, withdrawing the allegations, was given to the gardai.
Counsel noted that he originally claimed to have handed it in to a Garda station to a garda he could not name, then told the jury yesterday he had given it outside the station to a garda he named in court. But in a statement made in May last he told an inspector he threw it inside the door of the station.
The defendant has denied 12 charges of buggery, indecent assault and gross indecency on dates from February 1987 to February 1990.
He has pleaded not guilty to four charges of buggery with a male person, two of indecent assault with a male person under 15 years of age, and six of committing acts of gross in decency.
The hearing continues today.