A GLOUCESTER health care assistant accused of groping two women colleagues at Stroud Hospital was cleared by a jury today.

The jury of eight women and four men at Gloucester Crown Court took only 75 minutes to find Danisa Gumeda, 45, not guilty of four charges of sexual assault - two on each of the women.

Mr Gumeda, an agency worker, of Parkend Road, Gloucester, was discharged from court with his good reputation unblemished.

During a three day trial the prosecution alleged that on October 23, 2015 Mr Gumeda gave a prolonged and unwelcome hug to a woman health care worker who had just thanked him for agreeing to help her out by swapping shifts with her.

Later the same day, it was alleged, he went up behind the same woman and molested her in a side room as they were preparing to wash an elderly and confused male patient.

The prosecution case concerning the second woman was that he gave her an uninvited full kiss on the lips while they were working together in the early summer of 2015 and then, about a month later, groped her as she was reaching into a 'cubby hole' where staff belongings were kept.

She alleged that he put his hands inside her top and managed to get them around to her front and touch the bottom of her breasts.

But Mr Gumeda denied any wrongdoing against either of the women.

He accepted he had a hug with the first woman but said he had not touched either of them sexually.

He told the court that the second woman had been flirtatious with him throughout their shift together on the day of the alleged second sexual assault and that she had been feeling his biceps and touching him on the chest.

After the jury verdicts Judge Michael Cullum discharged him from court and thanked the jurors for their work.