Pub manager cleared of sexual assault allegation by jury

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A Wetherspoon pub manager has been cleared of sexually assaulting a drunk woman on her birthday after telling a jury that she was fully consenting.

Gareth Davies, 56, has been accused of touching the woman intimately when she fell into a drunken sleep at the end of the night.

Davies, shift manager at The George pub in Brecon, Powys, was asked if the woman was conscious and replied: Yes, absolutely.

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He told Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court how other people at the anniversary celebration broke into the living room of a city apartment after hearing the woman’s moans.

The trial heard one of the woman’s friends say: What’s going on? She’s not in good shape.

But Davies, of Merthyr Tydfil, said: We were both adults, both consenting to what was going on. I don’t think we did anything wrong.

Davies, whose partner supported him from the public gallery, still works for the chain but in another pub.

The jury found him not guilty of sexual assault.

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