The trial is because of final about 4 weeks.

London:

An alleged intercourse assault sufferer of Kevin Spacey stated the “slippery” Hollywood actor had tried to “groom” him earlier than later repeatedly groping him, a London courtroom heard on Monday.

Spacey, 63, is on trial at Southwark Crown Court accused of a dozen allegations of historic intercourse offences dedicated in opposition to 4 males, then aged of their 20s and 30s, that are stated to have taken place between 2001 and 2013.

He has denied all the fees and his lawyer stated final week in the beginning of the trial the jury have been going to listen to some “damned lies”.

On Monday, the courtroom was proven a recorded police interview with the primary of the alleged victims. The man stated the actor had assaulted him on as much as 12 events over a interval of about 4 years within the early 2000s, grabbing his “private areas” after they have been alone, corresponding to in a automobile or an elevator.

After two to a few weeks of being with Mr Spacey, the actor had begun rubbing the person’s legs and neck whereas he was driving, earlier than later beginning to grope him or drive the person’s hand onto his genitalia, he stated.

“He was almost, from the get go, grooming me,” the person stated within the interview.

The alleged sufferer, who can’t be recognized, stated the “touchy feely” actor had on one event aggressively grabbed his crotch so laborious when he was driving him to a celebration hosted by singer Elton John that he nearly crashed the automobile.

Describing himself a “man’s man”, the accuser recounted that he had threatened to knock the actor out if he did it once more, to which Mr Spacey had replied “that’s such a turn on to me”.

He described Mr Spacey as a “slippery”, tough particular person, a “mixed-up individual” who was very confused about his sexuality. The man stated Mr Spacey’s behaviour was an open secret on the London Old Vic theatre the place he labored for greater than a decade.

“It was well-known that he was obviously up to no good so to speak,” the person stated.

The trial is because of final about 4 weeks.

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