A jury within the UK on Wednesday discovered Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey not responsible of 9 intercourse offences in opposition to 4 males alleged to have occurred between 2001 and 2013.
Jurors at Southwark Crown Court in south London reached majority selections on the 9 counts, which included sexual assault, after greater than 12 hours of deliberations.
The jury started contemplating their verdicts on Monday, following a weeks-long trial which noticed British rock star Elton John give proof as a witness for Spacey.
The two-time Oscar winner, who turned 64 on Wednesday, denied seven counts of sexual assault, one depend of inflicting an individual to interact in sexual exercise with out consent and one depend of inflicting an individual to interact in penetrative sexual exercise with out consent.
The prosecution claimed he was a “sexual bully” who revelled in making others really feel uncomfortable, together with by aggressively grabbing males’s crotches.
Spacey known as the claims “madness” and a “stab in the back”.
The court docket had heard from the 4 alleged victims, who can’t be named for authorized causes.
One of them, a former aspiring actor, mentioned he woke as much as discover Spacey performing a intercourse act on him, suggesting the actor “drugged” him.
Spacey was accused of grabbing a sufferer’s crotch “so hard” they practically got here off the highway whereas driving to a fundraising occasion.
The verdicts in London comply with a US court docket final yr dismissing separate sexual allegations in a civil case introduced there.
A decide dominated the accusation weren’t confirmed after a jury was unconvinced by the proof introduced.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
