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| Stuart Hall cleared of rape charges | |
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| Ex-BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall has been cleared of raping two young girls. | |
| Hall, 84, from Wilmslow, Cheshire was found not guilty of 15 charges of rape and four counts of indecent assault by a jury at Preston Crown Court. | |
| He was found guilty of one count of indecent assault. Hall was accused of abusing the girls between 1976 and 1981. | |
| At the beginning of the trial he admitted indecently assaulting one woman when she was aged 13. | |
| Hall's barrister said that under the law at the time the offences were alleged to have happened he would have been charged with unlawful sex with a girl under 16. | |
| The former It's a Knockout presenter, of Wilmslow, Cheshire showed no reaction as the jury of eight women and four men delivered the verdicts after more than seven hours of deliberation. | |
| He mouthed "thank you" to the jurors as he was led away to the cells to continue serving his sentence for earlier offences. |