A former garda and another man have been jailed for drug and alcohol-fuelled assaults on two women, which culminated in one woman being bundled into a van and told she would be driven to the mountains and buried.
During the ordeal in April 2021, former garda Stephen Cooper (37) of Kingswood Heights, Tallaght, Co Dublin, forced a woman to take part in a “strip search” after he claimed she had stolen drugs from him, the court heard.
Cooper threatened the woman, saying: “I used to be garda, I know how to do this” and “if you weren’t a thief, I wouldn’t have to do this”.
