{"id":14337,"date":"2019-04-02T10:46:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T14:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=14337"},"modified":"2019-04-02T10:46:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T14:46:02","slug":"max-cliffords-conviction-for-sex-offences-upheld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2019\/04\/02\/max-cliffords-conviction-for-sex-offences-upheld\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Clifford’s conviction for sex offences upheld"},"content":{"rendered":"

By OLIVIA TOBIN<\/a><\/p>\n

Celebrity publicist\u00a0Max Clifford<\/a>‘s conviction for sex offences has been upheld more than a year after his death.<\/p>\n

The case of the 74-year-old, who died while serving an eight-year prison sentence for indecent assaults, was scrutinised by the Court of Appeal last month.<\/p>\n

The court had heard the PR guru denied “until his death\u201d he had sexually assaulted young women.<\/p>\n

However, in a ruling today, Lady Justice Rafferty described the case against Clifford as “strong” as the court upheld its conviction.<\/p>\n

Dismissing an appeal against his conviction, she said: “Nothing we heard came anywhere near imperilling the safety of his conviction.”<\/p>\n

Before suffering heart failure in December 2017, Clifford won the right for his fight to overturn his conviction to be heard at the Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n

His daughter Louise continued the challenge on her late father’s behalf.<\/p>\n

Clifford, from Hersham in Surrey, was jailed in May 2014 after being convicted of a string of indecent assaults carried out between 1977 and 1984.<\/p>\n

He branded his accusers “fantasists” and denied the charges, but was convicted at London’s Southwark Crown Court.<\/p>\n

He was sentenced to a total of eight years on eight counts of indecent assault relating to four victims.<\/p>\n

Sentencing Clifford after his trial, Judge Anthony Leonard said his personality and position in the public eye were the reasons his crimes were not revealed earlier.<\/p>\n

The former celebrity agent vowed to clear his name, claiming he was wrongly convicted.<\/p>\n

An application by Crown lawyers for their \u00a36,408 costs of the appeal, made against Louise Clifford, will be dealt with at a later date.<\/p>\n

Kim Harrison, of law firm Slater and Gordon, who represented five victims in civil cases against Clifford, said: “Hopefully, this loss will put an end to efforts to clear Clifford’s name and finally give his victims the chance to put these terrible events behind them.<\/p>\n

“These proceedings had yet again forced them to confront the abuse he subjected them to and caused them significant distress.<\/p>\n

“Clifford always insisted his accusers were ‘fantasists’ in a cynical attempt to bully and deter them from pursuing justice.<\/p>\n

“The truth is Clifford was a predatory sex abuser – that much has been shown time and time again.”<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Press Association<\/em><\/p>\n

Source\u00a0 standard.co.uknews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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