Tag: Otto Putland
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Jury fails to reach verdict over swimmer’s alleged rape
A jury has been discharged after failing to reach a verdict in the trial of a Commonwealth Games swimmer accused of raping a teenager. Otto Putland, 23, was accused of raping the 19-year-old woman shortly after she’d had consensual sex with his best friend. Mr Putland, of Dinedor, Hereford, had denied the charges and said…
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Commonwealth Games swimmer ‘raped a woman who had just had sex with his friend’
A Commonwealth Games swimmer raped a woman who had just had sex with his friend after she told him she wouldn’t be “passed aroundâ€, a court has heard. Otto Putland, 23, who represented Wales at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, is accused of raping the complainant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, twice…