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The teenage driver of a car that spun out of control and hit a lorry, killing his two best friends, has been found not guilty. ‌

Charles Gray was cleared of causing the deaths of his friends, Jayden McConnell, 17, and Kyle Marshall, 19, by careless driving in the collision on a known "greasy corner" on the A91 near Bannockburn Interchange - a huge roundabout linking the M9, M80 and other roads. ‌

After a five-day trial, jurors took less than two and a half hours to find Gray, 19, not guilty in court today. ‌

Gray's family members and members of the families of the deceased were silent on the public benches at Stirling Sheriff Court as the majority verdict was announced.

Sheriff Euan Gosney told Gray: "You are free to go."

Gray, then 17, had passed

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