During his first trial, Evans admitted that he lied to get the key for the hotel room, that he did not speak to the woman before, during or after they had sex, and that he left via a fire exit.

It also emerged that Evans’s brother and another man had tried to film him having sex with the woman from outside the room.

Evans spent two and a half years in prison before having his conviction quashed in October 2016. The second trial sparked controversy when it was revealed that the complainant’s sexual history, preferences and behaviour had been disclosed to the jury, and that she was questioned in detail in open court about the most intimate details of her sex life.

While the woman is guaranteed lifelong anonymity under media law, she has been repeatedly named and abused on social media, and has had to move house multiple times as a result of harassment. Several people have been fined after revealing the woman’s identity on Twitter and Facebook.

On the subject of the woman’s experience after the trial, Evans told the Times: “I feel like we were both victims.”

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Ched Evans seriously just warned women about the dangers of drinking because “there are genuine rapists out there”