A jury at Snaresbrook Crown Court in London acquits Micheal Ward of five sexual offences after a two-week trial, finding him not guilty on two counts of rape, two counts of assault by penetration and one count of sexual assault.Ward, 28, who testifies that a January encounter after a New Year’s event in East London was consensual, weeps as the jury returns its verdict while the woman who brought the charges says she repeatedly told him she wanted to leave and felt she shut down.The case, charged in July last year and tried after Ward’s United Kingdom agency drops him, has damaged his career even as
Creative Artists Agency continues to represent him in the US and his lawyer,
Humzah Ilyas, says Ward is eager to resume work.