RAF serviceman cleared of raping woman in Shrewsbury
An RAF serviceman has been cleared of raping a woman at her Shrewsbury home after they met through an internet dating site.
Lloyd Marshall had denied the allegation and told a jury the couple had consensual sex having met through the Tinder dating site more than two years ago.
He also denied the 30-year-old woman's claim that he had forced her to have sex after refusing to use contraception.
The 22-year-old also refuted the woman's claim he was responsible for some bruising and a bite mark.
He was found not guilty following a four-day trial at Shrewsbury Crown Court last week after he denied raping the woman in December 2014.
At the time Marshall, of Beverley, North Humberside, was based at RAF Cosford.
The jury heard the woman, a mother who cannot be named for legal reasons, had arranged to meet Marshall a few days after they were in contact by text and phone.
She had picked him up in her car at the Sainsbury's store in Meole Brace, and taken him to her home.
A video of her interview with police was played to the court in which she had claimed Marshall had sex with her despite her wanting to stop because he refused to use contraception and claimed he had grabbed her hair and held her down on the bed.
After the encounter she drove him to his car which he had left at the supermarket.
