Woman cleared of boy sex charge

Susan Robertson could face a retrial on the cocaine supply charge

A 32-year-old woman has been cleared of inciting a boy of 15 to perform a sex act with her.

But the jury at Guildford Crown Court failed to reach a verdict on whether Susan Robertson had supplied cocaine to the boy at her flat in Surrey.

The judge dismissed the jury when they could not reach a verdict on Wednesday.

Ms Robertson, of Wrecclesham, had already admitted performing a sex act on another boy, also 15, and three other drugs charges.

The jury spent more than five hours deliberating whether she had given a line of cocaine to the teenager.

Fought boy off

It is expected she will face a retrial for the drugs charge.

The court heard Ms Robertson was at her flat with the two 15-year-old boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, on the night of 4 December last year.

She admitted charges of performing a sex act on one boy and possessing cocaine, supplying cannabis and allowing her flat to be used to smoke it.

But she always denied inciting the second boy into a sex act and supplying cocaine.

She told the court she had tried to fight the boy off when he got into her bed but had not screamed because she was worried she would wake up her 12-year-old son who was asleep in the flat.

Passed out

The jury accepted her description of those events.

Ms Robertson denied supplying any cocaine, telling the court she had left a small trace on a table which the boy had taken.

She said she had not thought the boy would be "stupid" enough to use it.

The boy told the court she had given him the drugs and he passed out after snorting it.

Ms Robertson, who has been bailed, has not been sentenced for the charges to which she pleaded guilty.