Bird-fancier cleared of sexually abusing teenager

A bird-fancier accused of raping a 14 year-old virgin after getting her drunk at a pub has been cleared of all charges. Keith Atkinson, 68, was said to have attacked the teenage girl at his bungalow in Ash, Surrey, between August 2006 and 2008. He wept with relief in the dock of the Old Bailey after a jury of six men and six women delivered not guilty verdicts on all seven counts. Prosecutor Piers Reed had earlier told the Old Bailey: ‘There was…