A Bradford Crown Court jury today acquitted an engineer accused of carrying out a series of sex attacks on two girls in the city.

David Midgley, 60, formerly of Bradford and now of Witchfield Court, Shelf, was  found not guilty of 21 offences, including a charge of rape and accusations of indecent assault, gross indecency with a child and sexual assault.

Mr Midgley had denied all the charges against him.