Ryan Dare: Senior constable guilty of off-duty assault of woman at Manly function
A Sydney police officer has come clean to assaulting a woman at a function on Sydney’s northern beaches.
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A Sydney police officer has pleaded guilty to assaulting a woman at a Manly function when he was off duty in June 2019.
Ryan Nicholas Dare, 39, who when charged was a senior constable at a police command in the city’s north west, entered the plea at Central Local Court on Monday.
The policeman had been defending a charge of sexual touching which related to the same incident.
However, the charge was dropped following his guilty plea to common assault.
The plea came a couple of days into a criminal hearing before Magistrate Kate Thompson, which had been estimated to take another five days to complete.
Dare was investigated by the NSW Police Force’s professional standards command following the incident between 9pm and 9.50pm on June 16, 2019.
The constable was charged with sexual touching in the months following the incident, with the common assault charge laid in March last year.
Dare will be sentenced in the same court next month.
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