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A restaurant worker accused of using a giant oriental pestle to club to death a 74-year-old love rival has been cleared of murder at the Old Bailey.
Ngoc Giam Dang was bludgeoned as he lay asleep in bed at his flat in Hackney, north-east London, on 3 July.
His former lodger Tran Quang Hung, 38, admitted sneaking into the property, but said he only did so to have sex with the victim's 48-year-old wife.
When he got there, he said, Mr Dang had already been killed by somebody else.
The murder weapon was later recovered from the scene and was found to have the victim's DNA on it but not the defendant's.
The court heard it was "beyond dispute" there had been "bad blood" between the men, and that the defendant was caught on CCTV in the area of the flat at 01:02 BST and seen leaving five minutes later.
The jury deliberated over two days before returning a unanimous verdict of not guilty.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-31021198