HOTELIER and grandfather, Geoffrey Sparkes, has been cleared of sexually assaulting a teenage girl by putting his hand down her bra.A jury at Gloucester Crown Court took just one hour and 20 minutes to clear the owner of the Forest House Hotel and Bluebell Restaurant in Coleford of the allegation.Cheers, claps and gasps came from the public gallery before Mr Sparkes thanked the judge and jury.A 15-year-old schoolgirl had told the court Mr Sparkes had called her "a delicious young thing" before...
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