‘15 months of absolute hell’ as Jersey student cleared of rape in UK

The family of a student cleared of rape and sexual assault said they have been through 15 months of “absolute hell”.

Louis Richardson, the 21-year-old former secretary of Durham University’s prestigious Union Society debating club, was suspended from his history studies after he was accused of raping and sexually assaulting one student and sexually assaulting another.

A jury at Durham Crown Court took less than three hours to clear him of all four charges, following a trial which lasted six days.