Four rape trials ... with NO convictions

ALASTAIR COOKE, 23

THE Durham University student walked free after being accused of raping a 23-year-old student in her home when she was drunk and unresponsive.

A jury was told he stalked the woman, who he knew, after a house party, let himself in to her home and raped her three times. Jurors couldn’t agree on a verdict and in January the prosecution decided against a retrial.

LOUIS RICHARDSON, 21

A DURHAM University undergraduate, he was cleared of rape and sexual assault in January last year following a high-profile trial. He faced separate charges relating to two woman who did not know each other.

He was accused of raping a woman at his student house in March 2014 when she was ‘crazy drunk’, and was said to have assaulted another woman at a house party.

GEORGE WORRALL, 22

ANOTHER Durham student, who endured an 18-month ordeal before his charges were finally dropped. The undergraduate had been charged with two rapes and one sexual assault dating from December 2014 after he took a woman back to his accommodation. But last July, just weeks before his trial, the CPS dropped the case, due to ‘inconsistencies’ in his accuser’s account.

BARTOLOMEO JOLY DE LOTBINIERE, 21

THE former University Challenge contestant faces a retrial later this year after a jury at Yo r k Crown Court couldn’t agree verdicts.

He was accused of raping a 19-year-old woman in her York University halls of residence in June 2014 after a drunken night out.

She claimed he ignored her requests to ‘stop’ and forced himself on her in the bedroom. He agreed they had sex, but insisted it was consensual.