A former US Air Force pilot has been cleared of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a nine-year-old girl. Robert Prussak, 57, approached the girl after she became separated from her family during a trip from France on April 22.
The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was standing outside Harrods department store in Knightsbridge, London, a trial at Isleworth Crown Court heard.
Mr Prussak then walked with her to his flat and was accused of giving her bitter-tasting water allegedly containing the antihistamine Benadryl, which left her tired, the court was told.
It was alleged that the pilot, of no fixed address, then took the girl to Hyde Park and sexually assaulted her. Prussak was arrested later on the same day after he and the girl were spotted walking past the Israeli ambassy by a Metropolitan Police officer who had been informed she was missing.