A City trader has been cleared of raping a drunk university student at her halls of residence after helping her home from a jazz club.

Livio Dinaj, 24, was accused of attacking the young woman within hours of meeting her during a night out at Casablanca’s in Brighton, East Sussex.

The complainant said she woke up to find Dinaj naked in her bed and no memory of meeting him or getting back to her flat.

Livio Dinaj, 24, was accused of raping a woman after a night out at a jazz club in Brighton

She ushered him out of the front door and then spoke to a housemate before calling the police.

The woman said: ‘I had never seen him before. I felt like I had sex. I don’t remember it happening.

‘I had no idea how I got back. I thought I have to do something about it because I don’t know.’

At the time of the alleged rape in the early hours of 5 November 2015 Dinaj was a Masters student at the University of Sussex in Brighton.

He now describes himself online as a derivatives trader, Bitcoin specialist and co-founder of a cryptocurrency consultancy firm.

Dinaj admitted having sex with the victim both with and without a condom but claimed that she was consenting and that they were both drunk.

Today he was cleared of one count of rape following a three-day trial at the Old Bailey.

Dinaj told police how he started talking to the woman after going out to meet friends at the Casablanca Jazz Club.

He said when they went back to the woman’s flat he was sure she wanted sex.

Dinaj added: ‘I sat down and started stroking her, kissing her. She kissed back. She moved to allow me to take her top off, that indicates to me there is some desire to continue. There was fondling on her behalf too.’

He said they had sex using a condom he kept in his pocket but admitted ‘she wasn’t very active’.

Dinaj said he went to the bathroom to clean up afterwards and then left after she told him: ‘I think it is time for you to leave.’

He said: ‘There was never any freaking out, no indication that what happened she didn’t want. There was never any stress in her voice.

Dinaj said he could no longer remember the girl’s name but said he left after kissing her on the cheek.

He claimed he was ‘shocked’ when police later turned up on his doorstep to question him about the accusation of rape.

Dinaj, of no fixed address but previously living in Brighton, denied and was cleared of one count of rape.