The jury within the intercourse offences trial of Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey has been despatched out to start its deliberations.
The 63-year-old Hollywood star denies 9 expenses together with sexual assault, that are alleged to have been dedicated between 2001 and 2013.
Mr Justice Wall despatched the jury out to think about its verdicts on Monday at 12.45 p.m. GMT (3.45 a.m. PT).
Over the course of the high-profile trial at Southwark Crown Court, every of Spacey’s 4 accusers have given proof, variously describing him as a “vile sexual predator”, “slippery” and “atrocious, despicable, disgusting”.
Jurors have been instructed of alleged “aggressive” crotch grabs in opposition to three males, whereas a fourth complainant accused the defendant of getting drugged him and carried out a intercourse act on him whereas he was asleep at his flat.
Under questioning from Spacey’s lawyer, Patrick Gibbs KC, the boys all denied both in search of monetary acquire, making an attempt to additional their profession or giving false accounts to the jury.
Spacey himself labelled the allegations in opposition to him as “madness” and a “stab in the back”, and instructed jurors he “did not have a power wand that I waved in front of people’s faces whenever I wanted someone to go to bed with me”.
The Hollywood star denies seven counts of sexual assault, one depend of inflicting an individual to have interaction in sexual exercise with out consent and one depend of inflicting an individual to have interaction in penetrative sexual exercise with out consent.
High-profile witnesses have for the protection have included Elton John, David Furnish and Jack Lemmon’s son Chris Lemmon.
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