A building worker wept after being cleared of rape.

Anatoleyvich Yevehenko, 23, was accused of grabbing the woman around the throat and attacking her as she sat on a sofa.

It was alleged that at one point she scrambled to a window and screamed, but he yanked her back by the hair, threw her to the ground and continued the assault.

But the married father-of-one was found not guilty after telling a jury the woman in her twenties consented to sex.

Mr Yevehenko collapsed in the dock at Blackfriars Crown Court, south London, as the verdict was announced. Then he put his head in his hands and wept.

The jury had been told he attacked the woman after visiting a pal who was working at a Selsey farm.