Colin Leacock has been cleared of rape (Picture: Nick Edwards)

A man went on trial accused of raping a woman twice after meeting her on match.com has been cleared of rape.

Colin Leacock, 34, said that the accusations were levelled at him because his victim, who cannot be named, hated his sister, Mandy, so much.

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A court heard that Mandy Leacock had forced the woman to move into their flat in Maida Vale where she was beaten and kept as a slave.

She poured bleach over her victim in the bath and pulling handfuls of her hair out and later pleaded to three counts of ABH.


The woman claimed that Colin had forced her to perform oral sex on him twice, but he said that she was a willing participant.



He told the court if she told him not to continue ‘I would just back off and walk away’.

Mandy Leacock will be sentenced tomorrow (Picture: Central)

‘If she had struggled that would have been a no, no, no,’ he added.

Clare Wade, defending, asked the alleged victim: ‘Aren’t you just blaming him because you hate Mandy Leacock for what she did to you?’

The woman shouted back: ‘No, he did it, so don’t go there.’

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She told the court that the sister ‘made me a slave’ and she was too scared to call the police.

Mandy Leacock took her bank card and went on spending sprees buying expensive clothes and a watch for her ex-boyfriend.

The victim said she was assaulted ‘everyday’ and told jurors: ‘I felt humiliated. I didn’t cry because I got that used to it at the time.

‘I got used to getting hit, that’s why I didn’t cry. I haven’t got proper emotions.’

Colin Leacock was cleared of two counts of rape and two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

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He was said to have punched the woman in the face and swung her round by her hair until chunks fell out.

The brother, who has a low IQ, said he did not join in as Mandy beat the woman, and was ‘disgusted and shocked’ by police pictures of her injuries.

A psychologist concluded that Colin’s IQ may be as low as 55 but he has a ‘rudimentary’ understanding of consent.

In September 2015 Mandy Leacock posted Facebook pictures from a champagne-session at the five-star Langdon Hotel in Marylebone, central London.

She will be sentenced tomorrow at Southwark Crown Court.