A YOUNG mother accused of trying to seduce a 15 year-old boy at a fetish party wept as she walked free on Friday.

A jury took just 29 minutes to acquit 27 year-old Sarah Newell of sexual assault after she told them the lad's claims were "complete fantasy".

Police arrested Miss Newell, a mother of one, from Urmston, in August last year after photographs were found of her posing in a blue PVC catsuit outside Marks and Spencer in Manchester.

The boy - a teenage stage and film actor - had taken the pictures.

He claimed that night Miss Newell had invited him to a 'Club Lash' theme party at the city's Cathedral Arches.

Officers began investigating after the boy's mother - who was involved in a bitter feud with Newell - found the pictures and made a complaint.

As the jury returned their unanimous verdict Newell broke down and wept in the dock. Afterwards she hugged boyfriend Robert Pick on the steps of Minshull Street Crown Court, Manchester.

Her solicitor Tony Clarke said: "Sarah is obviously very relieved and grateful at the outcome as she has been totally vindicated.

"It has been an extremely traumatic nine months since she was first arrested and from the outset she has consistently maintained her innocence.

"She has been obliged to move away from home and to be separated from her eight year-old son who has been cared for Miss Newell's sister pending the outcome of this case.

"This was no more than a malicious and vindictive dispute which resulted in the false allegations but fortunately the jury were able to see them for what they were."

Earlier Miss Newell told the jury she was "100 per cent sure she didn't grope, grab, fondle, look at or fantasise" about the boy and was "sickened" by his allegations.

Newell said she had gone to the fetish bash dressed as a genie sporting a skintight catsuit, blue sprayed hair and blue lipstick. She regarded it as a "fancy dress" party but did not invite the lad to it. The boy had turned up suddenly at the club.

She denied prosecution claims that she peeled off her catsuit in the club before making the boy touch her bare breasts, saying this was impossible because she was wearing two bras. She also refuted allegations she twice asked the boy for sex - once at her home.

Newell, of Ciss Lane, Urmston - who denied three charges of indecent assault - said she met the boy in 1999 after discovering he had been locked out of his house by his mother.

The youngster, who appeared as an extra in the film Jimmy Grimble, was homosexual and had arrived home late following a night out in Manchester's Gay Village.

Newell found him outside, gave him a coffee out of sympathy then invited him into her house to stay until dawn.

She said: "He started coming round after that - it was just a normal relationship - I wouldn't say we were friends, more like acquaintances."

He went with her to the party on the pretext of of him meeting his boyfriend in the village. They stopped on the way to take pictures as she thought it would be fun. She left the club alone.

The court heard her family and the boy's were engaged in a bitter dispute which resulted in 10 claims and counter claims to police.