MANUEL: CLUB PROMOTER CLEARED OF RAPING FASHION JOURNALIST

A wealthy club promoter accused of raping a fashion journalist as she slept in the spare room at his plush bachelor pad has been cleared by a jury (FRI). Fernando Manuel, 29, was accused of forcing himself on the woman while she was still fully clothed and wearing her coat. She had accompanied a friend to the flat after meeting Manuel’s flatmate, whom they knew as ‘Wills’, at the members -only Maddox Club in Mayfair on 8 November last year….