A man who accused his housemate of stealing from him has been cleared of assaulting him.

Joseph Mourier, 24, said he was acting in self defence when he hit Madi Nget in an argument at their shared house in Broadway, Didcot, in August last year.

And Oxford Crown Court jurors yesterday cleared Mourier, now of Marston Road in Oxford, of inflicting grievous bodily harm.

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