Ched Evans suing his former lawyers over lost earnings after overturned rape conviction

Footballer Ched Evans is suing the lawyers who represented him in a rape trial in an effort to recoup a potential fortune of millions in lost earnings.Evans spent two-and-a-half years in prison after being convicted of raping a 19-year-old woman in a hotel room at the end a drunken night in north Wales in 2011, but a retrial in 2016 found him not guilty.Evans is now claiming he was badly advised by Brabners, the legal firm that defended him in the initial trial in 2012.