Arsenal footballer Stack cleared of rape

IRELAND and Arsenal footballer Graham Stack was cleared yesterday of raping and sexually assaulting a 22-year-old law student.

Mr Stack, 24, was accused of attacking the woman at his flat in Beckenham, south London, in the early hours of September 1 last year, after meeting her in a club.

A jury at Croydon Crown Court cleared the goalkeeper, who now lives at Ladygate Lane, Ruislip, north-west London, of one count of rape and one count of sexual assault.