Terri Spilling will stand trial next year. (Image: Archant)
A Suffolk support worker accused of sexually assaulting a mentally ill man will have to wait more than a year for her trial to take place.
Before Ipswich Crown Court on Friday (July 1) for a plea and trial preparation hearing was Naomi Richards, 31, of St Edmunds Road, Stowmarket.
She pleaded not guilty to sexually touching a mentally ill man in her care between May and June 2019 while she was a support worker.
Her trial, which is expected to last three to four days, will take place in August next year.
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