JLS STAR ORITSE CLEARED OF RAPE

FORMER JLS star Oritse Williams has been cleared of raping a woman in his hotel room following a concert.

Jurors at Wolverhampton Crown Court unanimously acquitted the 32-year-old singer, who told the jury he had consensual sex with the woman in December 2016.

Williams’s tour manager, 32-year-old Jamien Nagadhana, was also cleared of two sexual assault charges relating to the same woman.

The prosecution had alleged Williams tried to have sex with the woman, who cannot be named, and then raped her when she returned to his hotel room to look for her belongings.

The singer, from Croydon, south London, told the court he had a consensual encounter with the complainant, which ended in embarrassment when he was “unable to perform” sexually. WILLIAMS: ‘I was unable to perform sexually’ sitting on Williams’s lap at the club as “the understatement of the year”.

Referring to CCTV from the venue which showed “three-way” kissing and the complainant and two female friends behaving in a raunchy, sexual way, Mr Cotter said: “Right at the end (the alleged victim) is on top of Oritse Williams.”

Mr Cotter said of the rape allegation: “There is no realistic answer as to why he would do it.

“There is plenty of evidence, we suggest, that something happened between them and that the description given to the police at the time (by the alleged victim) is not true and accurate.”

Williams said the woman asked to spend the night with him and thanked him when they parted company.

He added that the woman had pulled him out of the nightclub after initiating a “highly sexually charged” display in the venue’s VIP area.