David Stansbury, 43, has been found not guilty of three counts of rape by a unanimous jury at Bristol Crown Court.
A police officer has been found not guilty of raping a woman at her home. David Stansbury, 43, who denied three counts of rape, was acquitted by a unanimous jury following a three-week trial at Bristol Crown Court. Sergeant Stansbury, of Ilminster, Somerset, had been accused of sexually assaulting the woman between 23 October and 30 November 2009 in Plymouth, Devon. He was found not guilty of the charges on Wednesday after a jury deliberated for almost seven hours.
Bristol Crown Court had heard that Sgt Stansbury had been called to the woman's address and took her statement after a suspect had tried to smash her door in. The police officer was accused of returning later to rape her. The allegations against Sgt Stansbury were made more than 10 years later when the woman was in the back of a police van after being arrested at a disturbance in 2020.
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