Oxford Crown Court Picture: ED NIX A man has been cleared of raping a woman he met at the gym. Danyle Smith, 28, was accused of forcing himself upon the woman in an Oxford city centre alleyway in January 2019. She claimed to have repeatedly told Smith, who had been released from prison around a month earlier, that she did not want to have sex with him and attempted to push him away.
Denial The defendant – sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in 2013 for aggravated burglary – denied that he had raped her. He said that WhatsApp messages he’d sent later that evening which appeared to acknowledge she had told him ‘no’ related to her telling him to halt his sexual advances when a car pulled up in the side street they’d walked down.
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Andrew Ward, of Grove, near Wantage, unleashed the vile attacks against his ex-partner over their nine-year relationship. Jurors at Oxford Crown Court have previously heard how the 35-year-old became ‘jealous, possessive and controlling’ and lashed out at the woman who had become too scared and embarrassed’ to tell the truth about her injuries to the doctors. In the first attack in 2012 she had been straightening her hair when he started kicking her in the ribs. She went to the doctors after feeling like she was going to ‘collapse’ in pain. Years later, she had been in bed when Ward came into her house in the early hours to check her mobile phone, ‘something he would always do’.
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