Soccer star 'damaged by claims'

One of the Leicester City footballers cleared of raping three German tourists in Spain today said he has been permanently damaged by the allegations.

Frank Sinclair, 32, along with colleagues Paul Dickov and Keith Gillespie, spent time in prison after being charged with "sexual aggression and penetration" - the equivalent of rape under Spanish law. Today Sinclair told how he was the victim of a set-up.

It was claimed Dickov, Gillespie and Sinclair assaulted the women - all originally from Africa but living in Germany - in the five-star Hyatt Regency Hotel during a March training trip to the La Manga complex. All charges against them were dropped last week over DNA evidence. But Sinclair today told BBC1 that the trio will "always be remembered as the ones that were accused rather than the ones that didn't do it".