The convicted rapist accused of killing West Australian teenager Hayley Dodd has been found not guilty of her murder but guilty of manslaughter.
Francis John Wark, 65, faced a six-week retrial in the WA Supreme Court accused of murdering the 17-year-old, who was last seen walking along a road near rural Badgingarra in 1999.
After deliberating for 11-and-a-half hours, the jury acquitted Wark of murder but found him guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter.
Wark was charged in 2015 following a cold case review and had been serving a 12-year prison term at the time for raping a woman he picked up in a remote part of Queensland in 2007.
Hayley's body has never been found.
Wark was remanded in custody to be sentenced on April 13.
