TWO teenagers have been acquitted of the gang rape of two Bexley schoolgirls in London's West End.
Mandela Bozumbil, aged 19, and a 16-year-old who cannot be named for legal reasons were found not guilty by a jury at Inner London Crown Court of joining with two others in attacking the girls, aged 15 and 16.
The jury was unable to reach verdicts on the other two teenagers, who are aged 17.
The court heard the two girls had been lured to a flat in Southwark on August 25 last year after meeting the youths at the Trocadero Centre in Piccadilly Circus.
It was alleged the 15-year-old girl had been threatened with having bleach sprayed in her face.
Bozumbil, of Nelson Square, Southwark, denied one charge of rape and the three other youths, all from south east London, each denied two rape charges.
The Crown Prosecution Service has seven days to decide whether to ask for a retrial for the two 17-year-olds.
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