By PAVEL BAILEYTribune Staff Reporterpbailey@tribunemedia.netA 24-year-old man was acquitted yesterday by a Supreme Court jury of an alleged rape on Boxing Day 2024 involving a 19-year-old woman with whom he had a prior sexual relationship. Denaveo Sweeting, 24, was in court as the jury returned a 7–2 not guilty verdict after just over an hour of deliberations at the close of his rape trial before Justice Renae McKay. During the trial, the defence said the complainant and the defendant had what was described as a ‘meet up and grind’ relationship. The complainant alleged that the defendant went to her home unannounced on the afternoon of the incident. She said that if she had wanted to have sex with the defendant that day, she would have called him.