Marius Lacatus, 32, a Romanian construction worker living in Dublin for the past three years, was charged with sexual assault and assault causing harm to the woman who was walking to work shortly after 6am on Monday.

The remaining nine suspended are under investigation for ‘other’.

The man is facing trial later this year relating to a single charge of indecent assault alleged to have occurred between January 1987 and December 1988.

The former colleague told Eoin Lawlor BL prosecuting that he began teaching in the school in 1992 and the accused was teaching there at the same time.

The 59-year-old man, who can't be named for legal reasons, has pleaded not guilty to one count of attempted anal rape and eight counts of sexual assault on dates between March 1991 and November 1997 at locations in Co Dublin

The woman is suing the man, who was a school principal of another school near to the one she attended, claiming he repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted her

The 59-year-old accused, who can't be named for legal reasons, has pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to one count of attempted anal rape and eight counts of sexual assault