A MAN who was accused of flashing a Jehovah Witness cold-caller who woke him up has been cleared of all charges.

The woman claimed Scott Vale, of Harveyfields, Waltham Abbey, opened his door wearing only his Superman dressing gown when she went to air her religious views.

She claimed he started “shuffling with his robe” when she returned to write down directions of a bible study group.

But the 24-year-old was cleared of indecently exposing himself on April 22, 2014 by a jury at Chelmsford Crown Court yesterday.

The woman said: “I didn't make too much of it until I looked into his eyes and I understood his robe had opened up.

“He was absolutely bare, his whole flesh was showing. I just wanted to look into his eyes but he was standing quite strong in front of me, inviting me to look somewhere else but I wasn't going to look anywhere else but his eyes.

“He probably didn't think I was as old as I am.

“He wanted to trap me into something more sinister. Afterwards I felt disgusted.”

She said afterwards she and her fellow Jehovah Witness carried on with their work, knocking on doors but she felt “numbed out” by what happened.

She reported the incident to police later that afternoon.

Another woman, who had also been door-knocking and was on the landing at the time the incident was supposed to have occurred, said: "He's a pervert. He was showing himself."

In his evidence, Mr Vale, a family man and father of two, said the knock woke him up. The two women didn't say they were Jehovah Witnesses and talked about prayer. He said he assumed they were Christian and he was always open to discussion.

He said: "The Asian woman came back up and was standing on the step down from the top. She stepped up a stair and we were face to face."

He said she then got flustered looking in her bag for a leaflet with the address. He said he might have been adjusting his dressing gown but it had not come undone.

He denied he exposed his penis or that he was aware it might have "fallen out".

He said it could have opened “accidentally" but denied deciding to give them "a nasty surprise" because they had woken him up and wasted his time.

In his summing up to the jury, Judge David Turner QC warned jurors not to make their decision on the "Jehovah Witness dimension" or take into account their own good or bad experience of Jehovah Witnesses on their own doorstep.