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A man who served 18 months in jail for rape has been acquitted at a retrial in the High Court at Gisborne.
Joseph Quintin Donnelly, 43, was accused of raping a woman in an alleyway between Belfast Crescent and Cambridge Terrace on the night of June 17, 2004.
But a High Court jury found him not guilty after deliberating for two hours, the Gisborne Herald reported.
Compensation for Donnelly, in jail for 18 months before a retrial was granted in July 2007, could be an issue, said counsel Charles Hirschfeld.
- NZPA
