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Another woman has filed a complaint with Ottawa police about accused rapist Paul Batchelor, making her the fourth woman to come forward since the former insurance man was acquitted in two unrelated rape trials in June.

Batchelor, 34, took the stand in his own defence and was acquitted twice on June 21.

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Batchelor is on bail awaiting a scheduled trial for three more rape cases next year. Those cases are unrelated to the four women who came forward after this newspaper reported on the June rape acquittals.

None of the women from any of the separate cases know one another.

In acquitting Batchelor, Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Beaudoin accepted the accused’s evidence that he had consent in both cases — a claim that differs wildly from the stories the women told at trial. They detailed horrific accounts of sexual assault in 2015 at Batchelor’s Sandy Hill apartment, just a few minutes walk from the University of Ottawa, where he studied economics at the time.