A Wetherspoons pub manager was cleared of sexually assaulting an “intoxicated” woman on her birthday after telling a jury that she fully consented.
Gareth Davies, 56, was accused of touching the woman intimately when she fell into a drunken sleep at the end of the night.
Davies, a shift manager at The George pub in Brecon, was asked if the woman was conscious and replied: “Yes, very much so.”
He told Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court how other people at the birthday celebration burst into the living room of a flat in the town after hearing the woman’s moans.
The trial heard one of the woman’s friends said: “What’s going on? She’s in no fit state.”
But Davies, of Merthyr Tydfil, said: “We were both adults, both consenting to what was happening. I don’t think we had done anything wrong.”
Davies, whose partner supported him from the public gallery, still works for Wetherspoons but at a different pub.
The jury found him not guilty of sexual assault.