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| A soldier has been cleared of raping a teenager in a central London park. | A soldier has been cleared of raping a teenager in a central London park. |
| Adam Bray, 21, was found not guilty by a jury at Southwark Crown Court of two counts of raping the 17-year-old in Green Park. | |
| The jury is still deliberating on his co-defendant David Wright, 25, who is charged with three counts of rape. | The jury is still deliberating on his co-defendant David Wright, 25, who is charged with three counts of rape. |
| The pair, from the Household Cavalry which guards the royal family, claimed the girl consented to having sex with them in the park last September. | |
| The incident took place after the pair had drunk a number of pints during a "merry" Friday night in London's Soho, the court heard. | |
| You know what you did that night was disgraceful Judge John Price | |
| The pair met the teenager and her older sister outside a Soho bar in the early hours. The soldiers described kissing the pair before the oldest said she had to go. | |
| The girl claimed that Mr Bray and Mr Wright held her down and ignored her obvious discomfort during the ordeal that left her bruised and bleeding and with extensive injuries. | |
| But when she was asked, during her evidence, if she had "ever used the word stop", she accepted she had not. | |
| Dismissing Mr Bray, judge John Price said: "You know what you did that night was disgraceful." |