Adam Johnson has been cleared of one count of sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl.<\/p>\n
The jury are undecided on another count of the same offence.<\/p>\n
Jurors had been asked to decide whether the schoolgirl performed a sex act on the former Sunderland footballer when they met in his car in January last year and if he put his hand down her trousers.<\/p>\n
Johnson, 28, has been acquitted on the charge relating to the girl’s claim she performed oral sex on him.<\/p>\n
The jury will continue their deliberations on the other charge.<\/p>\n
The player has already admitted grooming the girl and kissing her in the front seats of his Range Rover Sport. But he denies they went any further.<\/p>\n
Today is a year to the day since Johnson was arrested at his home in Castle Eden, County Durham.<\/p>\n
Arriving at court today, Johnson was again accompanied by his ex-girlfriend Stacey Flounders, who has supported him during the trial and gave evidence for the defence, despite the couple having split up.<\/p>\n
The two-week trial has heard how Johnson exchanged hundreds of messages with the schoolgirl after she befriended him on Facebook at the end of 2014.<\/p>\n
He signed two football shirts for the avid Sunderland fan before asking her to meet and give him a ‘thank you kiss’.<\/p>\n
When they met a second time, the girl claims she gave the player oral sex and he put his hands down her trousers. He denies they did anything more than kiss.<\/p>\n
The defence claim the girl is a ‘proven liar’ who made up the more serious allegations to ‘save face’ in front friends she had told about Johnson.<\/p>\n
The prosecution say Johnson has admitted lesser offences in a bid to get off the more serious charges.<\/p>\n
They claim he has ‘lied and lied again’ to police and during his trial.<\/p>\n
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Source: Daily Mail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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