A 28-YEAR-OLD man has admitted committing a sexual assault at the Scottish Police College at Tulliallan Castle.

Jack Cooper, who had been a police trainee, appeared at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.

He admitted that on June 29 last year at Scottish Police College, Tulliallan Castle, Kincardine, he sexually assaulted a female by seizing and handling her buttock over her clothing.

On the same day at the college, he sent offensive comments about the victim to another female.

Cooper’s address was given as a Police Scotland professional standards office in Aberdeen.

Sheriff Susan Duff called for reports and Cooper will be sentenced on September 11.