found guilty of breaking into a woman's apartment and sexually assaulting her.

The verdict came exactly one year after the trial began.

But sentencing was put off for Andrew Robinson, 28, until next month while a social inquiry report is prepared.

Robinson, a constable with the Bermuda Police Service, was suspended with full pay since charges were laid after the July 25, 1993 incident.

The Royal Gazette understands he will continue to receive a salary from the Bermuda Police Service.

Police spokeswoman Insp. Roseanda Jones said the Acting Commissioner had been told about the verdict.

However, a decision will be made about Robinson's employment after the official notification of the verdict is received.

Reading from her judgment, Magistrate the Wor. Cheryl Ann Mapp said she "rejected the defendant and his witnesses'' which included several police officers.

The defence claimed the woman, who has since returned to Britain, knew Robinson socially and had an attraction to him.

It also argued she had given him an open-ended invitation to visit her apartment anytime and it was for this reason that he went there during the early morning hours of July 25.

However, the Crown denied the woman ever met, or spoke to Robinson before and that when she awoke to find him between her legs licking her, she was startled and called Police.

It was this version of events that Mrs. Mapp accepted, noting that Robinson never denied being in the woman's apartment that night.

This was underscored further because Police found his shoe in her apartment after he fled and his thumbprint on the bathroom window.

Mrs. Mapp pointed out if the woman knew Robinson as well as he claimed to, then her initial distress could have been managed simply as was the case in most misunderstandings between adults that know each other.

Since the woman called Police, and identified him positively in a lineup at the Hamilton Police station a day later, Mrs. Mapp said, it suggested Robinson was a stranger.

Mrs. Mapp adjourned sentencing until January 19, 1995 after a social inquiry report has been completed.

This brings to 32 the number of adjournments in the case which began on December 6, 1993.

Mrs. Mapp's judgment was delayed three times since October 20, its first official date.

Robinson was represented by lawyer Mr. Delroy Duncan while Mr. Philip Storr appeared for the Crown.