A self-confessed first date addict was cleared today of raping a woman he met on a dating app.

Adam Leheup, 34, a technical co-ordinator on the £500m Nine Elms Point development in Wandsworth Road, Lambeth, denied raping the 25-year-old and sexually assaulting her at her Camden flat in 2013.

The jury took one hour and 33 minutes to decide to acquit Mr Leheup at Blackfriars Crown Court today, after the trial began on Monday, April 13.

The pair met under the clock in Waterloo station on July 9, 2013, after meeting on Let's Date, and chatting via messaging services.

Mr Leheup, of Mayfield Road, Hersham, said he missed his last train and had asked to stay at the woman's house following an evening of drinking at Gordon's Wine Bar, Embankment, and Joe's in Camden, and she agreed he could.

He said he had originally bought a return ticket to Walton, where he lived at the time, and did not intend to stay in London that night.

Prosecutor Ish Sheikh told the court the woman made it clear nothing would happen. Mr Leheup said when giving evidence: "She said ‘it doesn’t mean anything is going to happen, I’m not that type of girl’."

She said he had got into bed with her naked when they returned to her house in the early hours of July 10, and insisted on having sex despite her shouting 'no'.

He maintained she was responding to his advances, leading to them both being naked in her bed, and said when she told him to stop he did.

He told police they had got into bed, she had taken off her jogging bottoms and "I get on top of her kissing and I’m now gyrating and everything. I’m naked, she’s naked and the end of my penis has hit something, but it doesn’t penetrate".

Mr Leheup told police the woman said stop and he rolled away before she got out of bed and said "this isn't even me". He told the court she then said he could still stay but she would sleep in her housemate's bedroom.

Later on the woman's housemates came up to the room and told Mr Leheup he should leave and they would call the police. He decided to climb down scaffolding outside the building which, as a practitioner of parkour, seemed like "fun way down".

After he was arrested on his way to the Underground he told police they had been kissing outside Joe's bar and told the court when giving evidence she had seemed OK with it.

Swabs were taken from both Mr Leheup and the woman, but were never sent for testing.

Mr Leheup was cleared of all charges on Friday, April 17.