A KEBAB shop owner has been found not guilty of pushing a drunken customer into a toilet and indecently touching her.
Murat Kaya, aged 39, was acquitted of sexual assault following a trial at Plymouth Crown Court.
The jury took less than two hours to unanimously find Mr Kaya not guilty.
He had previously denied indecently touching the 24-year-old at Best Kebab on Union Street on April 24 last year.
The woman claimed Mr Kaya had pushed her into a private toilet at the back of the takeaway and indecently touched her.
Mr Kaya, however, told the two-day trial he helped the woman back to her feet after she fell, touching her only on the waist and hand.
Judge Darlow released the defendant from the dock and discharged the jury.
The woman told the court earlier this week she had requested to use the Best Kebab staff toilet as she was "desperate".
Following the alleged incident, the woman exited the premises and walked to a nearby nightclub where she was found, in distress, by a friend.
The jury were shown CCTV footage of the woman and her friend departing the takeaway before delivering its verdict.
Mr Kaya, born in Turkey, said he moved to England in 1997 and learned English at college in Exeter.
He ran a takeaway in Okehampton for more than a decade before buying Best Kebab in 2014.
Mr Kaya said he was divorced but was in a new relationship.
The court also heard he was a guitarist who took part in Turkish and Kurdish cultural events.
He was described by friends as "good-natured, hard-working and a man of integrity."