Ron Smith Found Not Guilty!

VETERAN ARTIST Ron Smith has been found not guilty of all charges accusing him of sexual abuse against a minor during the 1980s.

The accusations were made only recently (by a woman now aged 39). It has been suggested there had been other unrelated disagreements and this lead to her story against Smith. A weeklong trial concluded on Friday 12th June, with the jury finding Smith innocent on all counts.

Now in his 80s, Smith had served in the RAF, and after becoming demobbed worked in the British animation industry before entering the comics field. He worked on many adventure strips for D.C. Thomson in comics such as The Hotspur and then worked for worked for Fleetway on comics like 2000AD during its heyday, he was also the Judge Dredd newspaper strip artist published in The Daily Star.