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| Adam Johnson guilty of child sex charge | |
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| Ex-England footballer Adam Johnson has been found guilty of one count of sexual activity with a girl aged 15. | |
| The former Sunderland player previously admitted grooming the girl and one charge of sexual activity but denied two more serious counts. | The former Sunderland player previously admitted grooming the girl and one charge of sexual activity but denied two more serious counts. |
| A jury at Bradford Crown Court found him not guilty of a second charge of sexual activity. | |
| The judge in the trial has warned Johnson a prison sentence is almost inevitable. | |
| Johnson met up with the girl on 30 January 2015 after agreeing to sign football shirts for her, the court heard. | |
| The player admitted kissing the teenager but told the jury the encounter in his Range Rover "went no further". | |
| However the girl told the court the former winger "put his hands down her pants" and she performed an oral sex act on him. | |
| Johnson was found not guilty on a charge relating to the oral sex claim but guilty by a majority verdict of 10-2 on a charge of sexual touching. | |
| The jury deliberated since Tuesday morning following a three-week trial. | |
| Johnson was sacked by Sunderland after admitting on the first day of his trial that he had kissed the girl. |