Soldier cleared of park rape

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Adam Bray, 21, was found not guilty of two counts of raping a 17-year-old girl in a London park by a jury at Southwark Crown Court.

The jury also found his co-defendant, David Wright, 25, from the Household Cavalry not guilty on one charge of rape.

But the nine women and three men of the jury failed to reach a verdict in relation to two other counts. A case management hearing will take place later this month to decide if there is to be a re-trial.

The pair admitted to having consensual sex with the teenager but said the young woman was quite happy to take part in the "threesome" last September. During the trial they said she not only insisted she could "handle two", but "actively" encouraged them.

The incident took place in London's Green Park after the pair had drunk a number of pints during a "merry" Friday night in London's Soho.

The pair met the teenager and her older sister outside a Soho bar in the early hours. The soldiers described kissing the pair before the oldest said she had to go.

But the 17-year-old stayed with the soldiers and accompanied them to the nearby park.

The alleged victim claimed that Bray and Wright held her down and ignored her obvious discomfort during the ordeal that left her bruised and bleeding, and with extensive injuries.

But when the young woman was asked, during her evidence, if she had "ever used the word stop", she accepted she had not.