Sinn Fin says Stanley was advised to go to garda over complaint within party [Video]

SINN FÉIN HAS said that former TD Brian Stanley was advised to go to the gardaí about a complaint against him, but he chose not to.

That’s according to the party’s latest statement, which contradicts Stanley’s earlier claim that he asked Sinn Féin to refer the complaint involving him to gardaí last month.

The Laois-Offaly TD resigned from the party late on Saturday, stepping away after 40 years of membership due to what he called a “seriously flawed” internal investigation.

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said the party undertook an internal disciplinary process to look into a complaint that was made against him in July and that during the investigation a “counter allegation” was made. 

McDonald said that a preliminary report was furnished to both individuals – Stanley and the complainant – last week but that, on foot of Stanley’s resignation on Saturday, the internal process has been suspended and the issue has been referred to gardaí.

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