THE 4 CASES AGAINST HIM

CASE ONE King was convicted at the Old Bailey in September 2001 of four counts of indecent assault, one of buggery and one attempted buggery on five boys aged 14 and 15 in the 1980s. The pop mogul has protested his innocence ever since, but was jailed for seven years. He served half of his sentence. This case has been reopened because of fresh evidence. CASE TWO Two months later, King was found not guilty of sexually assaulting two other underage boys, after one admitted in court that he might have been over 16 at the time of the alleged offence. CASE THREE King has been due to face further charges in late 2001, but the prosecution decided not to go ahead with the trial. The charges were ‘left on file’ – King was told by his lawyers that this meant they would never be revived. CASE FOUR In what legal experts say was a highly unusual move, two of the ‘on file’ charges were revived in 2015. King was also charged with crimes reported to police in 2001, but where they had taken no action. Facing claims he had abused a total of ten underage boys, he was found not guilty of two of the revived charges in June 2018. The whole case was aborted last week after the judge found the police had ‘misled’ her and so ‘undermined the integrity’ of the criminal justice system.