Jury fail to agree on stato rape trial

A former Oxford University PhD student accused of raping a woman is set to walk free after a second jury failed to reach a verdict. Statistician Sherman Ip 25, was said to have forced the woman down on to his bed and pulled off her clothes before launching the attack on 14 May 2013. But Ip told jurors ‘she consented’ and says he thought ‘everything was normal’ when they had sex at her parent’s house the following day. The woman,…