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Footballer Ched Evans won his appeal against his conviction for raping a 19-year-old woman yesterday.

Court of Appeal judges in London ordered that he must now face a fresh trial.

Evans, now 27, was convicted in April 2012, having been found guilty at Caernarfon Crown Court of raping the woman at a hotel in Rhyl, north Wales.

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