Three teenagers have been cleared of raping a woman who was on a night out in Huddersfield.
Prince Omary, 19 of Riddings Road, Deighton, and two 17-year-old youths who cannot be identified were unanimously found not guilty by a jury at Leeds Crown Court each on two charges of rape.
They hugged each other after being released from the dock.
The offences were alleged to have happened in an alley off Market Walk on Saturday, February 8, last year when the trio were out together in the town centre.
Andrew Kershaw, prosecuting, had told the court the woman was “heavily under the influence of drink” and had lost contact with a friend who had gone into a club.
CCTV showed her approaching one of the younger youths and talking to him before he put his arm around her and started walking with her.
The other two were behind them and when the first youth and woman went into the alley, they followed them.
The prosecution claimed that she was so drunk she was unable to resist their sexual advances and had not consented to what then happened.
A passer-by who witnessed some of what was going on alerted the police and when two officers got to the alley they found one youth with his hands down the woman’s jeans.
The woman told police she could not remember how she got into the alley.
The teenagers denied forcing any contact on her against her will and said she had not resisted or refused what had happened between them.
