A Kiwi teaching assistant who was in the UK as part of his gap year has been cleared of raping a female colleague at a boarding school where they both worked.
Arthur Caughley, 20, who as a child starred in a children's drama series on New Zealand television, had been accused of attacking the woman in her room at the school in South West Herts in January last year.
But this week at St Albans Crown Court on the second day of a trial, a judge directed the jury to return not guilty verdicts.
It happened after the prosecution announced that because new evidence had come to light, it was dropping the case against Mr Caughley.
The jury were asked to bring in not guilty verdicts in respect of two charges of rape, sexual assault and assault by penetration which he had denied.