PC whizzkid cleared of net ‘attack’

A COMPUTER whizzkid branded a cyber-criminal after his PC was hijacked to cause America’s biggest systems crash was cleared yesterday of any wrongdoing.

Aaron Caffrey, 19, was not only charged but forced to endure a two-week trial for allegedly shutting down vital navigation systems at the port of Houston in Texas.

He even had to endure transcripts of steamy transatlantic exchanges between himself and the woman he loved being read out to a court full of strangers.