Two teenagers have been cleared of raping a drunk girl in a gang attack at a Medway house.

Syrians Ahmed Naeem, 18, and a 17-year-old boy, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, were freed from custody soon afterwards.

The younger teenager denied two rape charges and Naeem denied one charge.

The 17-year-old claimed in evidence that the girl, 18, consented to sex with him. Naeem did not give evidence.

Although it was alleged others were involved in raping the girl, the teenagers were the only ones to stand trial.

The jury of seven men and five women reached verdicts today after deliberating for almost nine hours.

In a trial lasting two weeks, the girl told Maidstone Crown Court she went to the house in Burnt Oak Terrace, Gillingham, in October last year late at night for what she thought was going to be a party.

But she said was sexually attacked by several teenagers and men. “It was one after the other,” she claimed.

Prosecutor Amanda Hamilton said when the girl eventually arrived home at 4.30am her mother immediately saw something was wrong. She looked dazed and had lost her phone.

The girl declared: “I think I might have had sex.”

She dropped her pink bra on the floor before getting a beer from the fridge.

When interviewed the next day, she said she had smoked some cannabis and drunk alcohol before she went out.

She met up with some friends. She drank strong beer and Sambuca. Asked how drunk she was on a scale of one to 10, she said seven or eight.

A back calculation showed she would have been about twice the legal limit for driving.

The 17-year-old said one of his friends had been having intercourse with the girl before he went into the bedroom.

“The girl was on the bed,” he said through an Arabic interpreter. “She was naked.”

She asked him a question about his private parts, he said.

“She was happy,” he continued. “I said: ‘Do you want to try it?’ She laughed. I took it she wanted it. She made me have the desire to want to sleep with her.

“She took my shirt off. I took the rest of my clothes off. I slept with her.”

The boy said he went home and had a bath before going back to the house.

He saw the girl again. About 30 minutes later she left saying she would be back at 5pm.

Judge Julian Smith told jurors: “These are troubling cases. There are many issues you are forced to address.

"There are many factors you confront in terms of evidence which, I have no doubt, caused you to think very carefully about these matters.”