EX-ARSENAL STAR CLEARED OF GROPING PENSIONER ON BUS
A FORMER Arsenal and Northern Ireland footballer has been cleared of groping a pensioner on a bus.
Sammy Nelson was accused of grabbing the woman between the legs on October 28 last year after a boozy afternoon watching football.
The 69-year-old was cleared of one count of sexual assault for the alleged incident on the packed park-andride bus from Brighton City Centre.
Nelson, who now lives in Hove, asked the woman, who is in her 70s, whether she and her friends were on their way “back to the nursing home”.
He then joked that the man he was with, his son Peter, was his carer and started chatting to the group about his career as a football player.
The complainant told Brighton Magistrates’ Court she had been returning from a Beethoven concert at the Dome when Nelson touched her.
She said Nelson was “extremely smartly dressed – he had a trench coat on and really shiny shoes”.
She claims the ex-Arsenal left-back groped her after they had been making small talk for a few minutes.
“All of a sudden this hand came down between my legs with some force around my pubic and vaginal area,” she said.
“I was absolutely shocked and really angry and I said ‘If you do that again I will give you such a slap’.
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The court was shown a clip of the bus ride, during which Nelson apparently picks up the woman’s hand and either kisses it or presses it to his face.
He then apparently nudges her with his elbow.
The complainant denied only reporting the incident to the police after googling Nelson and his former career.
He denied ever groping the complainant.
At a previous hearing, Nelson admitted one count of assault by beating relating to pressing the complainant’s hand to his mouth.
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