A JURY at Newport crown court cleared a jobless young man of allegations that he carried out a sex attack on a teenage girl he met on a bus.

Jonathan Swift, 19, of Cardiff Road, Newport, was found not guilty of a charge of sexual activity with a child.

He admitted kissing the girl, who at the time was on her way home from school, but he said that nothing whatsoever of a sexual nature took place.

Prosecutor Peter Heyward said the girl, who was under 15, missed her usual bus from school because she had been kept behind for detention.

She took a normal service bus and as she got on she was followed by Swift who specifically asked her how old she was.

Swift was arrested the following day and, said Mr Heywood, denied the allegations saying nothing sexual took place and there was no violence.