A 55-year-old disc jockey has been cleared of raping a drunken teenager after a party.

David Benson, who had consumed up to 14 pints of beer himself, insisted the 18-year-old consented to the sexual encounter.

The jury at Worcester Crown Court also found him not guilty of two counts of assault by penetration and sexual assault, after deliberating for more than seven hours.

Mr Benson, who lived in Court Street, Upton, invited a number of people to his home after running a disco at the town's water festival in August last year.

But the teenager collapsed in his bathroom after drinking eight bottles of beer and two alcopops and was carried to a bed to sleep it off.

Mr Benson promised her friends he would wake her for work in Worcester next day.

The jury of seven men and five women rejected the woman's claims that Mr Benson attacked her while she slipped in and out of consciousness.

She got out of the house and went to a friend's flat. The friend told the jury she acted like a bereavement victim and was in a distressed state.

But Mr Benson, who ran a local football team and now lives in Sansome Street, Worcester, said that when he went to check on the girl she was awake. He said he helped her take off her clothes and she performed a sex act on him.

He said he had drunk too much and was incapable of having full sex.

Defence counsel Francis Laird said it was Mr Benson's case that the teenager "actively participated in a sexual encounter".