NOT GUILTY: RADA Grad Cleared Of Gay Rape

100% Innocent: Sissons

A former BBC producer accused of raping a waiter he wooed on gay dating-app GRINDR was cleared yesterday.

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art graduate Adam Sissons, 28, who is now the technical director of a top production agency, always insisted sex was consensual.

He has worked on events for clients including Jaguar, L’Oreal, Topshop and Marks & Spencer and helped make hit comedy Gavin & Stacey.

Sissons, of Gainsborough Studios, Poole Street, Hoxton graduated in 2009 with a qualification in Stage Management & Technical Theatre and went on to work for the Royal Albert Hall and National Theatre.

He was found not guilty by a Blackfriars Crown Court jury of one count of rape and one count of assault by penetration.

Prosecutor Miss Corinne Bramwell told the jury Sissons began communicating with the 19 year-old via GRINDR after being served by him in an Angel restaurant.

On October 9, 2014 they enjoyed their first date at the nearby Narrow Boat pub, where they kissed and the defendant groped the younger man between the legs.

They then walked back to Sissons’ flat. “They took part in some consensual sexual activity in the bedroom.”

The jury heard Sissons then used a sex aid on the teenager, who said: “It hurts. Please don’t do it, take it out.”

“He was not consenting to that act, but Mr. Sissons moved the complainant’s hands away and the complainant says he felt scared and powerless.”

The jury unanimously found Sissons not guilty on both counts.