Accused rapist cleared after Tinder date refuses to give evidence

A father-of-two has been cleared of raping his Tinder date. Israel Tshikeva, 27, spent a fortnight flirting with the 25 year-old woman over the dating app after messaging her: ‘Hi you ok? You are really pretty.’ When he first steered the conversation towards sex, she told him she would not sleep with him on the first date, the Old Bailey heard. Prosecutors claimed Tshikeva was ‘quite persistent’ and was ‘interested in meeting her in order to have sex’. By the…