PE could be scheduled to be heard on 22 July
Armagh All-Ireland winner Aidan Nugent will have his case for sex assault elevated to the Crown Court next month.
During a brief update in the case against 30-year-old Nugent, a prosecuting lawyer told Armagh Magistrates Court, sitting in Newry, that “papers should be ready” so the case was ready to fix a date for the Preliminary Enquiry, the legal step necessary to return every criminal case to the Crown Court.
She suggested to District Judge Anne Marshall the PE could be scheduled to be heard on 22 July but for the matter to be reviewed beforehand, “to make sure everything is ready.”
Nugent, from the Cullyhanna Road in Newtownhamilton, faces two charges of sexual assault and two of causing or inciting a person to engage in a sexual activity, namely contact with his genitals, on 17 November last year.
When he first appeared in court last month, the Public Prosecution Service asked for a further four charges will be added to the indictment.
It is understood it is the Crown case that the offences were committed in America when the Armagh GAA team travelled to Miami in Florida to celebrate the team’s All-Ireland win, their first All-Ireland title in 22 years after they clinched victory over Galway at Croke Park in July.
Nugent’s defence team have emphasised that during formal police interviews, he claimed that “any sexual activity was consensual” and that when he was charged with the offences, Nugent replied that “I deny the allegations – it was consensual.”
The All-Ireland winner had been excused from attending on Tuesday.
Adjourning the case to 8 July for review, Judge Marshall excused him from having to attend on that date but ordered that he will have to appear for the PE on 22 July.
by WrongdoerGold1683
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hope he gets the book thrown at him
put a big black mark over their success with this shit
I believe her
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