A pharmaceutical consultant dressed as James Bond, accused of raping a fellow costume-party guest, has finally been cleared after three trials.

University of Edinburgh graduate Rowan Nidd from St. Albans was accused by the party goer, who had drunk 12 glasses of Prosecco at the event.

She admitted she was 'close to' 10/10 drunk when she found herself at Mr Nidd's former Islington flat in the early hours, insisting he forced himself on her.

Rowan Nidd, pictured outside Harrow Crown Court where he was found not guilty of attempted rape; sexual assault and assault by penetration

Yesterday at Harrow Crown Court Mr Nidd was found not guilty of rape; attempted rape; sexual assault and assault by penetration on December 6, 2015.

The woman gave a video-recorded statement to police less than 48 hours later and after a lengthy investigation Mr Nidd first appeared at Highbury Corner Magistrates Court in April, 2017, charged with the four counts.

He always denied the accusations, claiming the woman had been flirting with him all night and thrust her hand down both the front and back of his trousers and even she admitted she kissed Mr Nidd.

A jury was sworn in at the first trial at Blackfriars Crown Court and the case opened, but had to be scrapped before hearing any evidence.

In May last year a second trial resulted in a hung jury after they failed to reach any verdicts on any of the charges.

Mr Nidd suggested the false allegations were motivated by the woman potentially becoming unpopular in a social group they both belonged to for chasing him, knowing another female member was 'infatuated' with him.

At the latest trial, giving evidence behind a curtain, she said: 'I have snapshots of memory and some of these are of the worst moments that night and they are clear.

'I came around to feel my underwear being tugged off my legs, to him doing this all to me. I was asleep, I was drunk and wasn't able to consent to anything he was doing.'

Earlier the jury viewed the video-recorded interview in which she said: 'I was shocked at what had been happening, I felt woozy, I didn't feel me.

'I didn't want anyone else to know what happened, I was embarrassed. I was p***ed off at what he had done.

'I could feel him, I could hear him, his breathing. I wasn't dreaming, it was too realistic.'

Mr Nidd always denied attempting and then briefly having minimal intercourse with the complainant and performing two sex acts on her, insisting he had to reject her advances.

Harrow Crown Court, north west London, where Rowan Nidd was yesterday cleared of rape

She dismissed the significance of kissing Mr Nidd at the pub costume party that night. 'I think there was some, not much, quite fleeting. It was just that party mode, it's nice to flirt a bit.'

Following the party she got a mini-cab to Mr Nidd's basement flat and during the journey allegedly announced: 'I get really horny, slutty when I'm drunk.'

She could not recall if she used the words, but said if she had: 'That's a lot of bravado.'

On the police video she said: 'I know I didn't want anything to happen. I was struggling to walk in a straight line, I remember falling into the wall.

'I came around in his bed and he was pushing against me. I said to myself: 'It's not happening, it's not happening'.'

She texted a friend: 'I thought I was going to an after-party and I've woken up at Rowan's. I don't know what to do.

'He's been trying to have sex with me, but he won't stop. He's taken my underwear off. I came around to him on me again.'

The former events organiser told the jury: 'I was shocked waking up to him doing that. I was so drunk I didn't even know where the door was to leave.'

When cross-examined she denied the social group for City professionals that they both belonged to was more of a drinking club, with the female members often 'coarse' and 'boozy' on night's out and 'slapping bottoms.'

'There wasn't many, many drunken nights and I didn't find Rowan attractive,' she said, denying playing with a whip in a 'sexually provocative manner' during the party.

Mr Nidd also says she lifted her toga costume above her legs, revealing more of her body-paint, announcing: 'This is where the gold ends.'