A jury at Caernarfon Crown Court charged the Sheffield United and Wales’ striker with raping the then 19-year-old at a hotel in north Wales, last May as two of his friends tried to film the event on a mobile phone.
His co-defendant, Port Vale defender Clayton McDonald, was not found guilty of the same charge.
This comes as the two men acknowledged they had sexual affairs with the woman, who was not named for legal reasons, but the court said she was “too drunk to consent to sex.”
The Brabners Chaffe Street Law Firm, representing Evans, said in a statement that Evans was extremely “disappointed” by the verdict. Adding, “Evans firmly maintains his innocence in this matter and is being advised regarding an appeal of the decision. No further comment will be made whilst the legal process is ongoing.”
While giving the guilty verdict against Evans, the jury foreman said that the girl was only 19 years old and extremely intoxicated. “CCTV footage shows, in my view, the extent of her intoxication when she stumbled into your friend,”
“As the jury have found, she was in no condition to have sexual intercourse. When you arrived at the hotel, you must have realized that.”
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