Katie Price's ex-husband has been found not guilty of raping a 13-year-old girl.
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husband → find → girl
Kieran Hayler, 39, was accused of sexually assaulting and raping a 13-year-old schoolgirl in West Sussex in 2016.
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Hayler → accuse → 2016
The 10 jury members returned majority decisions on Thursday morning after deliberating for nearly 15 hours.
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Mr Hayler of Northchapel, West Sussex, wept as he was released from the dock at Lewes Crown Court.
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His mum and former partner Michelle Pentecost were crying as the verdicts were delivered.
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Mr Hayler was cleared of three counts of rape, sexual assault and alternative charges of sexual activity with a child.
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Hayler accused Price of 'coaching' the alleged victim after discovering messages in which his then-wife suggested he fancied the girl and promised to make her 'a little star'.
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Hayler told the court: 'I am attracted to older women', adding that all his significant relationships had been with older women.
The former couple at the UK premiere for the film Fifty Shades Darker in London in 2017
Kieran Hayler outside Lewes Crown Court, East Sussex today
He admitted having affairs with three other women during his marriage to Price, but claimed she had also been unfaithful.
The court heard that trust between the couple's relationship had broken down by mid-2013, with Hayler telling jurors that 'trust had gone on both sides'.
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Hayler said he discovered messages between his wife and the alleged victim in 2017 while searching Price's phone for evidence that she was having an affair.
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Judge Mark van der Zwart sent out of the jury, made up of six women and five men, to begin their deliberations on Tuesday afternoon.
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In closing speeches on Monday, prosecutor Ryan Richter said: 'You've seen the big personalities, the big egos in this case and you'll judge it, you'll cut through it.
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You'll decide whether those big voices drown out the voice of (the complainant) or whether that voice has made you sure on the counts of this indictment.'
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Defence barrister Arlette Piercy said in her closing speech that Hayler has been consistent and clear throughout his defence, in what has been a 'roller coaster ride for everybody in this court'.
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She called for the jury to take care, be calm and rational, warning 'emotion is enemy of reason'.
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The court previously heard that Price had messaged the teenager claiming she had heard Hayler and the girl had kissed and that he had 'tried it on' with her.
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In another message, the former glamour model told the girl: 'I will make you a little star.'
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Hayler said he found the exchange suspicious and took photographs of the messages on his own phone.
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Asked by his defence barrister Arlette Piercy why he had photographed them, he replied: 'Because she made out that I fancied (the complainant).
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I thought, 'This is a bit weird.''
Giving evidence in the defence case last week, Hayler's former partner Michelle Pentecost told the court Ms Price made 'numerous threats' – more than 60 – to both herself and Hayler during their seven-year relationship.
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Asked about the kind of threats, she said they were made over the phone or on video calls, and included phrases like 'I'm going to ruin you Kieran, I'm going to ruin Michelle'.
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She added: 'All the time she'll be throwing out threats 'I'm going to make everyone think you're a paedo'.'
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The 44-year-old said the effect of the threats were 'horrendous'.
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Ms Pentecost told the jury on Friday: 'If things were OK in her life and there was no drama, we'd have a happy life.'
But she added that if Ms Price was not happy, 'we would get the brunt of it'.
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She referred to a 'pornographic Christmas card' which was sent to her mother's address with explicit pictures of Hayler on it and signed 'Happy Christmas from a friend or something like that,' she said.
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Asked if this was in connection with Ms Price, she replied: 'I never had issues before that.'
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On Friday, Hayler also said he believed Ms Price and the complainant came together for a meeting and the alleged victim was 'acting' in her police interview.
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Hayler said in his evidence on Thursday he thought Price was 'coaching' the teenage girl after discovering messages she sent to her.
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Katie Price is pictured arriving at Lewes Crown Court, East Sussex, on October 14
Hayler accessed her phone by using her fingerprint while she was 'in bed hungover or on drugs,' he told jurors on Friday.
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The messages sent between Ms Price and the girl include the media personality saying she had heard Hayler and the girl kissed and he had 'tried it on' with her, adding: 'I'm only asking as this is a serious allegation.'
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The teenager replied that it was 'just a flirt thing' and 'nothing happened'.
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In the conversation, Ms Price went on to ask if Hayler ever said he liked or fancied her, to which the girl replied: 'Yes but I took it as a joke.'
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Mr Richter accused the defendant of only producing the messages now because 'you're desperate'.
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Hayler replied: 'Not desperate, I found them.'
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The prosecutor said: 'You never revealed them before because they don't help you, actually.
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They show (the complainant) admitting for the very first time sexual things happened between the two of you.'
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But Hayler said the messages do help him, and that he never flirted with the girl.
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Mr Richter also put to Hayler that seeing the allegation and the complainant 'partly accepting' this 'must have been horrific for you'.
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Hayler replied: 'I just didn't think anything of it.'
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The former couple at the UK premiere for the film Fifty Shades Darker in London in 2017
Pressed on that he thought enough about it to take a picture of it, Hayler added: 'Yeah, of course.'
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The jury was shown a video recording of a police interview the woman gave in December 2021, where she described being raped by Mr Hayler.
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