A 19-year-old from Felixstowe has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl, but acquitted of a same charge against another teenage girl.

Franklin Windsor of Grange Road, will be sentenced by a judge on March 25 and has been ordered to sign the sex offenders' register.

Windsor was today (Friday, February 4) found guilty by a unanimous jury verdict at Ipswich Crown Court of sexually assaulting the girl in October 2018 when he was 16, but cleared him of sexually assaulting another 16-year girl during a party in Millennium Woods, Kesgrave, in July that year.

Windsor had denied both offences, calling the allegations 'a pack of lies'. He was released on bail while pre-sentencing reports were compiled.

Recorder Jeremy Benson warned Windsor a pre-sentence report was no indication of the sentence he would receive, but that he would take into consideration the fact that he was only 16 at the time of the offence and that there had been such a long delay in the case coming to court through no fault of his own.

The court heard the victim of the sexual assault had agreed to let him stay the night in her brother's bedroom but Windsor had allegedly exposed himself to her before getting into bed with her and touching her sexually despite her requests for him to stop.

During the five day trial in Ipswich, the jury heard eight character references from people who know Windsor and spoke highly of him.

A female work colleague described him as "an exceptional young man" and said she had "complete trust" in him.

A female friend said Windsor "didn't have a bad bone in his body" and another said he had never made her feel uncomfortable or unsafe.

Prosecution counsel Claire Matthews put it to Windsor during cross examination although he was a nice lad who everyone felt safe around when he was sober, he had a nasty side when he'd been drinking, which he denied.