Amy Winehouse's boyfriend not guilty of rape charges

The boyfriend of late singer Amy Winehouse has been cleared of raping a woman at his apartment.

Filmmaker Reg Traviss, who was dating the Back to Black hitmaker when she died from alcohol poisoning July last year, was accused of twice assaulting a 27-year-old friend while she slept at his apartment in London on New Year's Eve.

On Thursday, a jury at Southwark Crown Court in the capital unanimously acquitted Traviss of two counts of rape.

He denied the charges when he took to the stand earlier this week, insisting the sex was consensual.