BARRY policeman Mark Hobrough has been cleared of a sex attack on a female colleague.

Sergeant Mark Hobrough, the husband of Survivor winner Charlotte, was accused of indecent assault on an off-duty WPc by groping her in a nightclub.

But a jury of seven men and five women took just ten minutes to clear him of the attack.

Hobrough, who lives in Sully, was accused of groping the pretty WPc in the crowded Cardiff nightspot, Life.

He denied the attack - and said he was in a "blissful" marriage to his millionairess wife who won the desert island reality TV show.

He told Cardiff Crown Court: "If I had put my hand on a ladies breast I would have been aware of it.

It would have stopped me in my tracks and I would have apologised."

Tom Crowther, defending, earlier told the jury that their verdict compared their decision to the vote which won Charlotte £1m on the TV game show.

He told the jury: "A vote 18 months ago changed Mark Hobrough's life in a very significant way.

Many more people were involved and it won his wife a sum of money.

"But you 12 hold his life very much in the palms of your hands."

Charlotte - dubbed "the Harlot" after a fling on the TV survival island - pledged to support husband Mark.

After the case, Mark said: "I want to thank my wife Charlotte, my mother, father and entire family and friends who never doubted me and provided me with encouragement and support throughout.

"I'm delighted that my innocence has been established.

I'm looking forward to returning to work and resuming my normal life."

Charlotte - wearing a black suit and lilac top - was asked what they had planned for the future and she replied: "Chilling out a bit."

Chief Inspector Huw Gosling, of South Wales police, said: "Mark will be welcome back in work, at the same rank as he was before."