Gerard Gunnery pleads guilty to sexual assault in Dublin

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Gerard Gunnery pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to sexually assaulting a woman in Dublin city on 23 December 2017. The proceedings were reported on 13 November 2020.

The woman told gardaí she had fallen asleep in Gunnery’s taxi and woke to find him sexually assaulting her. She said he became aggressive and threw her out of the car. Gunnery told gardaí that the woman had told him to “go for it” and claimed he would not have touched her otherwise.

At a sentence hearing on 13 November 2020, Judge Karen O’Connor remanded Gunnery in custody to 11 December 2020 for imposition of sentence.

This report covers an earlier stage of the case. Later developments are not reported here.