A man has been cleared of raping an 18-year-old girl at knifepoint after they went for a drive in the country. A jury at Teesside Crown Court took only five minutes to acquit Mark McKeown, 22, from Darlington, after hearing that the teenager wrote to him after his arrest, saying "I am sorry"
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