A JURY has acquitted a York hotel employee accused of raping a university student he met at a nightclub.
The 12 men and women at York Crown Court took just under two hours to return their unanimous verdict on Damien Robertson, 21, of Acomb Road, York.
The student, aged 20, had alleged that he invited himself home to her house and had sex with her without her consent after their encounter in the coat queue at The Gallery nightclub.
He told the jury she had invited him back, and on their arrival, led him straight upstairs to her bedroom where she was keen on having sex with him.
Updated: 10:37 Friday, June 13, 2003
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