Second retrial for accused groper?

BRIGHTON

A university student accused of groping a young woman when she passed out drunk after a night out faces a second retrial after a jury again failed to reach a verdict. Thomas Rowntree, 23, allegedly slid his hand up the 20 year-old virgin’s dress as she slept under a blanket on a sofa at her home in Redhill, Surrey. The alleged victim claimed that she pretended to be a in a coma until he went to the toilet and then…

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