Kevin Spacey Discovered Not Responsible in Legal Sexual Assault Trial

Kevin Spacey has been discovered not responsible of all counts within the actor’s sexual assault trial in the UK.

The jury spent two days of deliberation following a four-and-a-half-week trial at Southwark Crown Courtroom in London. They acquitted Spacey of seven counts of sexual assault, one rely of inflicting an individual to interact in sexual exercise with out consent, and one rely of inflicting an individual to interact in penetrative sexual exercise with out consent.

All through the case, the actor denied all fees levied in opposition to him. Going into the trial, Spacey had been dealing with three extra counts of indecent assault, however the decide struck off these fees towards the top on account of a “authorized technicality.”

Spacey was first charged with 4 counts of sexual assault by the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service in Might 2022, citing incidents dedicated in opposition to three males between 2001 and 2013. By the point the trial started final month, the variety of complete fees had risen to 12. Lots of the allegations come from the time frame wherein Spacey was the creative director of the Outdated Vic theater in London, a place he held from 2004 to 2015.

Testifying, Spacey’s accusers described him as a “vile sexual predator,” and prosecutor Christine Agnew referred to as him a “sexual bully” who “delights in making others really feel powerless and uncomfortable.” Spacey, however, continued to color himself as a sufferer, claiming that he was “crushed” to listen to of the allegations, and felt that a minimum of considered one of his accusers had stabbed him “within the again,” as he felt their relationship was “intimate.”

Of their closing arguments, Spacey’s protection staff prompt that his accusers have been mendacity “for causes which, finally, will solely ever be identified to themselves.” Additionally they appeared to counsel that Spacey was being unfairly handled on the premise that he lives an “odd” life. A member of his protection staff, Patrick Gibbs KC, described Spacey as “a person who’s promiscuous, not publicly out, though everybody within the companies is aware of he’s homosexual, who needs to be only a regular man, or a minimum of a few of the time he does — to drink beer and snort and smoke weed and sit within the entrance and spend time with youthful individuals who he’s drawn to.”