David Duckenfield, the match commander at the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, has been found not guilty of gross negligence manslaughter by a jury at Preston Crown Court on Thursday.
A jury of seven women and three men were sent out on Monday to consider their verdict and returned to find former Chief Superintendent Duckenfield not guilty.
Judge Sir Peter Openshaw had told the jury to take no inference from the fact that Duckenfield, 75, had not given evidence at the trial, as he suffers from post traumatic stress disorder.
At the conclusion of the first trial in March, a jury were discharged and a retrial later ordered after they were unable to return a unanimous decision, nor a majority verdict.