A former professional footballer has been spared jail after he sexually assaulted a young woman while she slept.
Ex-Manchester City and Celtic player Chris Killen, 35, said he was in a 'stupefied state' from alcohol when he through the unlocked patio doors of a house where a group of women were sleeping after a party on September 17, 2016.
Killen, a father of two, went into a bedroom and got under the covers next to a woman who was sleeping alongside her friend and another woman in the room.
His victim, who had been drinking, suddenly became aware of a man next to her in bed and 'froze' when she felt a hand on her bottom over her knickers, Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester heard.