Witness Marie Farrell has told the Ian Bailey case at the High Court that a Garda stripped naked in a house in Schull and asked her for sex.
Mrs Farrell said the incident with Detective Garda Jim Fitzgerald happened in the summer of either 1997 or 1998 but she did not tell anyone until years later.
In heated exchanges with counsel for the State, Mrs Farrell denied telling lies.
Paul O'Higgins SC said Mrs Farrell had introduced it "as a threat in public" when reference was made to the incident last week but no detail given.
"So can you please say now what this is? What is the dark secret which you said you hold over Garda Fitzgerald?" he asked.
"It's just something personal," she replied, adding: "I can tell you but it will cause huge embarrassment".
Mr O'Higgins said: "It may do but there are a lot of things you've done which have caused embarrassment, let's have it out".
She said Det Garda Fitzgerald had called to a house she was cleaning in Schull and she went upstairs.
When she came down he was standing in one of the bedrooms and had stripped naked and asked her for sex.
"I told him to get the f*** out".
She asked Mr O'Higgins "do you think I want to be sitting here in public saying this so there will be more newspaper headlines about Marie Farrell and what went on. I would not sit here and embarrass myself.
"My children are all adults now, it is not easy for them to read headlines like that".
Mr O'Higgins said he did not know what her relationship with newspaper headlines was and he was still trying figure her out.
He pressed her for the exact date it happened and said "any normal person could not forget the day the month the hour at which such an incident happened".
She said she had seen a growth low down on Det Garda Fitzgerald's stomach.
"How would I know that was there if I had not seen him naked?"
She said she had only told her husband about this and only told solicitor Frank Buttimer about it in recent weeks. She knew his wife and did not want to tell anyone about it, she said.
Mr O'Higgins said she was "no shrinking violet when it came to making allegations of extraordinary lewd behaviour by gardaí".
Mrs Farrell said: "It is not an invention, I am not lying".
Mr O'Higgins said the incident would be denied by the garda as would another incident she referred to last week involving an encounter with Detective Sergeant Maurice Walsh in the toilets of a golf club.
Mrs Farrell claimed Det Sgt Walsh exposed himself to her and said he was turned on by fitting up Mr Bailey.
Today Mr O'Higgins said that would be denied by the Garda.
He again questioned her about why she did not tell everyone about the incident and Mrs Farrell said these things happen when people have drink taken.
"How often do you say things like this happened to you?"
"Maybe not anymore but certainly years ago. When I was younger maybe every other weekend" she replied.
"Every other weekend you would have men approaching you with their penis out?" Mr O Higgins asked.
"Not like that no. But do you think I wouldn't have been propositioned years ago when I was younger, thinner and better looking?" she asked.
"This was something that would have amounted to a sexual assault," Mr O'Higgins said.
"Yes it was sexual assault. It did happen," Mrs Farrell replied.
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