Image source, PA MediaImage caption, Micheal Ward poses for the cameras at an event last year
British actor Micheal Ward has been found not guilty of rape and sexual assault against a woman who claimed he had attacked her in the back of a car.
Ward, 28, denied two charges of rape and three of sexual assault against her, and a jury at Snaresbrook Crown Court acquitted him on all counts on Friday.
He had met the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, at an east London nightclub on 2 January 2023.
Bafta winner Ward, who is best known for the film Blue Story and Netflix series Top Boy, said: "Everything we did was wholly consensual."
Top Boy actor tells rape trial that encounter was consensual
