A BRITON facing sex assault charges in the US threw himself from a bridge over a 1,000ft gorge in front of his girlfriend.

Steven Prosser, from Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, told his girlfriend, Carol, "I love you", before plunging from the into the Arkansas River, in Colorado.

The 42-year-old had earlier given police in Ponca City, in the neighbouring state of Oklahoma, DNA samples in connection with a sex attack.