A TEENAGER has been found not guilty of raping a 14-year-old girl in woods behind a high school.
The teen, then only 15 himself, was accused of pushing the girl against a tree and then to the ground in the mossy wood, described as being two minutes' walk from the campus.
He was then alleged to have raped her – but denied the offence and told the High Court in Stirling that she had agreed to sex.
The incident was reported by the alleged victim to a police officer, but after a four-day trial, a jury of eight men and seven women took less than an hour to find the boy, now 17, not guilty. The verdict was unanimous.
The boy, who told the court he suffered from attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD), wept in the dock when the verdict was announced this morning.
Trial judge Lord Turnbull told him he was free to go.
Giving evidence, the boy, who cannot be named, had said that the girl, who also cannot be identified, had willingly gone with him to the woods, where they'd had consensual sex.
He told his advocate, Lorraine Glancy, that he had been excluded from school after the incident and had not completed his studies.
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