A SCOTS aristocrat who was accused of a cocaine-fuelled sex attack on a woman during a two-day birthday bash at his stately home has walked free from court.

Euan Tennant was alleged to have groped the woman and carried out a sex act on her while they and a friend shared a bed at the Glen House mansion at Glen Estate, Innerleithen.

The alleged victim told Edinburgh Sheriff Court this week that she lay “frozen” during the alleged assault and eventually managed to flee the bedroom in tears in July 2019.

Tennant, 39, denied the attack claiming the sexual contact between them was consensual and following a three-day trial a jury returned a majority not proven verdict yesterday.

Sheriff Kenneth Campbell QC told Tennant, a father of two, he was being acquitted of the sex assault charge and he was free to leave the dock.

Euan Tennant, who lives in a farm cottage on the Glen estate, inherited the 19th century mansion after the death of his mother in July 2018.

Earlier this week the alleged victim told the court she had been invited by a friend to help celebrate Tennant’s 36th birthday Borders mansion house.

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The woman, who gave her evidence from behind a screen, said she and her friend were sharing a large room named The Valley and slept in a “huge four poster bed”.

She said all three were in the bedroom socialising at around midnight on July 27, 2019 where her friend and Tennant had snorted lines of cocaine.

She said Tennant later asked to sleep in the large bed with the two women and the victim said they agreed as they “felt safe he would not do anything”.

She told the jury Tennant started stroking her legs as they lay in the dark and that she “didn’t do anything hoping he would stop and take his hands away”.

She said: “I was being as still as possible and I wanted to pretend to be asleep hoping he would stop but he didn’t."

The court was told that Tennant then moved his hand up her leg.

The woman told the court she was “frozen” in fear and was crying as Tennant carried on the alleged assault.

The woman said she fled the bedroom and after speaking to her friend she later contacted police and reported the incident.

Tennant, who gave his occupation as an electrician, also gave evidence and told the jury he believed he had been given a “green light” by the woman and said all the contact in the bed was consensual.