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[Lite Beer]

Max Clifford jailed for eight years for sex assaults

Disgraced celebrity publicist Max Clifford has been jailed for a total of eight years for a string of indecent assaults against girls and young women.

On Monday the 71-year-old became the first person to be convicted under Operation Yewtree.

Sentencing the PR man, Judge Anthony Leonard said he had groomed and degraded his victims.

Mr Leonard ruled that Clifford should serve his eight sentences of between six and 24 months consecutively.

He said that Clifford - whose lawyer later said an appeal was being considered - should serve at least half his total sentence in jail.

The judge said some of the offences would be charged as rape if they had happened today.

After hearing his sentence, Clifford turned off his phone, took off his hearing loop, turned to friends in the seats behind him and smiled, before being led to the cells.

Read More: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-27259318

-- BBC 2014-05-03

[happyday6089]

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[GentlemanJim]

There will be sooooo many celebs and public figures who fell foul of his kiss and tell stories ready to party that it would need a very large room to hold them all in. Clifford totally destroyed many families, relationships and people, by making a living out of searching for skeletons in peoples cupboards. It seems that his own skeletons have now come back to take revenge for all his victims. It will be a bit of a bummer now he has collected all those tens of millions for his retirement, spending his final years in the clink. If he makes it out in 4-5 years he should have some more stories to tell though.

[Basil B]

And to think of all the Corrie stars he has represented, but just did not have the luck of Bill or Michael...

[folium]

Karma indeed...

So hard not to indulge in a spot of schadenfreude....really trying hard not to!

[3NUMBAS]

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/09/17/max-clifford-launches-appeal-against-eight-year-prison-sentence_n_5836954.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

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Disgraced PR guru Max Clifford has launched an appeal against his eight-year prison sentence for a string of indecent assaults on four women. The 71-year-old fell from grace after decades influencing the media when he was convicted of eight counts of the crime, carried out between 1977 and 1984, in May.

A spokesman for the Judicial Office said Clifford was appealing against the length of his imprisonment which would be heard at the Court of Appeal in London on October 9. Passing sentence at Southwark Crown Court in May, Judge Anthony Leonard told Clifford his personality and position in the public eye were the reasons his crimes were not revealed earlier.

He said: "The reason why they were not brought to light sooner was because of your own dominant character and your position in the world of entertainment which meant that your victims thought that you were untouchable, something that I think you too believed. These offences may have taken place a long time ago, when inappropriate and trivial sexual behaviour was more likely to be tolerated, but your offending was not trivial, but of a very serious nature."

[3NUMBAS]

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/nov/07/max-clifford-loses-sentence-challenge

Max Clifford loses appeal over sexual assaults conviction

Court of appeal upholds eight-year jail sentence for PR agent convicted of series of indecent assaults

• Press Association
• theguardian.com, Friday 7 November 2014 10.40 GMT

[pitrevie]

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I agree but if you are a banker the only way you are going to see the inside of a prison is if you kill a few women.

[WitawatWatawit]

The period of the offences is 1977-1984, when he was about 41. Makes you wonder if this is not yet over.

[Basil B]

Well it turned out to be a life sentence...