Top swimmer cleared of raping student moments after she had intercourse with Olympian

A Commonwealth Video games swimmer has been discovered no longer responsible of raping a woman who claimed he forced himself on her quickly after she had consensual intercourse along with his friend, any other high swimmer.

Otto Putland, 24, who represented Wales at the 2014 Commonwealth Video games in Glasgow, denied raping the girl after a night time out in July 2015 and modified into once acquitted by a jury of seven girls folk and 5 men at Cardiff Crown Court docket on Tuesday.

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After hearing the verdict, Decide Jeremy Jenkins told Putland he modified into once ‘free to leave’ and thanked the jurors for the ‘care and consideration’ they’d given the case.

The girl, who first came forward in November 2016, mentioned she went dwelling with Olympic swimmer Ieuan Lloyd after assembly him in a club and had consensual intercourse with him.

She mentioned when Putland came in to the room and sat on the mattress after Lloyd left, she made it obvious she did no longer favor to have intercourse all over again, telling him they’ll also impartial no longer ‘lunge her around’, asserting ‘no’ and turning her head away.

Putland denied her claims and mentioned the girl had been ‘very pleasant and delighted and flirtatious’ while they were chatting after he had been provided to her by Lloyd.

He mentioned it modified into once her demeanor which led to him kissing her, her returning his kisses, and then to consensual intercourse and that the girl did nothing to operate him judge she modified into once no longer consenting.

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In his closing speech, Christopher Rees, for the defence, reminded jurors this modified into once no longer a ‘court of morals’.

He mentioned: ‘Corrupt intercourse is no longer rape. Sex after one celebration has persuaded the many to have intercourse consensually is no longer rape.

‘Regretted intercourse is no longer rape.’

Mr Rees mentioned there had been ‘evident inconsistencies’ in what the girl told other folks at numerous times relating to the night time.

‘She had the chance to remark ‘no’ and he or she did no longer recount the leisure,’ he mentioned.

‘She did no longer stop it. She did no longer call out to Ieuan Lloyd. She did no longer call out to anybody at all. From that you just may well infer that she did consent, or can also impartial have consented.’