News / UK and world by Press Association April 10, 2018, 3:17 pm FacebookTwitterLinkedInWhatsAppEmail Sign up to our Daily newsletter A Commonwealth Games swimmer has been found not guilty of raping a woman who claimed he forced himself on her shortly after she had consensual sex with his friend, another top swimmer. Otto Putland, 24, who represented Wales at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, denied raping the woman after a night out in July 2015 and was acquitted by a jury of seven women and five men at Cardiff Crown Court on Tuesday. After hearing the verdict, Judge Jeremy Jenkins told Putland he was “free to leave” and thanked the jurors for the “care and attention” they had given the case. The woman, who first came forward in November 2016, said she went home with Olympic swimmer Ieuan Lloyd after meeting him in a club and had consensual sex with him. She said when Putland came in to the room and sat on the bed after Lloyd left, she made it clear she did not want to have sex again, telling him they could not “pass her around”, saying “no” and turning her head away. Putland denied her claims… Read full this story
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