Footballer Ched Evans cleared of rape

Footballer Ched Evans has been found not guilty of raping a young woman, following a retrial.

The jury took around three hours to reach their verdict in the retrial, which came after an original guilty verdict four years ago was quashed by the Court of Appeal.

The 27-year-old Chesterfield striker had always denied raping the 19-year-old waitress at a Premier Inn hotel near Rhyl in North Wales five years ago.

Evans had been a target of Premier side Hibernians in 2015.