Gardaí accused of burglary and perverting the course of justice | BreakingNews.ie

A trial date has been set at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for three gardaí accused of burglary and perverting the course of justice.

One of the three men also faces a charge of false imprisonment of a woman.

Robert Gorman, 43, with an address in north Dublin, is charged with burglary of a basement flat on Mountjoy Square North in the city centre on September 7th, 2021.

He is also accused of perverting the course of public justice between September 30th and December 30th, 2021 by allegedly signing information for a search warrant on that flat in Mountjoy Square.

Mr Gorman faces a second count of perverting the course of justice by allegedly creating three incidents on the Garda Pulse computer system on September 21st, 2021.

Ciaran Whelan, 51, with an address in Co Tipperary is also charged with burglary of the basement flat at Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1, on September 7th, 2021.

Mr Whelan is further charged with burglary of a flat on Kenilworth Road, Dublin 6, on June 19th, 2021 and with three counts of perverting the course of justice on dates between August 25th and September 27th, 2021.

The charges of perverting the course of justice include allegations that Mr Whelan made a false report to a superintendent regarding a search of the flat at Kenilworth Road, and amended data on the Garda Pulse system.

Mr Whelan is also charged with false imprisonment of a woman on September 7th, 2021 at Saint John’s Road West in Dublin 8.

Mark Duffy, 39, with an address in Dublin 15, faces one count of burglary at a property on Kenilworth Road on June 19th, 2021 and a second count of perverting the course of justice on a date between August 28th and December 20th, 2021.

At a sitting of Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on Thursday, Judge Martin Nolan set a trial date of February 23rd, 2026 in relation to the three men.