pour l'encouragement d'autre

This is a sad story. Boy George, regardless of whether you liked or hated his music, is a man of considerable talent; to have fallen to this level is a tragedy.

And, of course, it is a terrible crime. I have, over the years, come across people who have sexually assaulted escorts and often they justify their behaviour by suggesting the crime was really not a crime because of who they assaulted. I cannot say what happened here but the crime is one that needs to be punished if only pour l'encouragement d'autre

LONDON - British singer Boy George was found guilty on Friday of falsely imprisoning a Norwegian male escort by handcuffing him to a wall.

The former Culture Club frontman was at Snaresbrook Crown Court in east London to hear the verdict, which came at the end of a two-week trial.

The jury broke to consider its verdict at around noon on Thursday. He will be sentenced later.

The 47-year-old, tried under his real name George O'Dowd, denied falsely imprisoning Audun Carlsen at his flat in April last year, the Press Association reported.

O'Dowd told police he had invited Carlsen to his home after a cocaine-fuelled pornographic photo shoot in January because he suspected the Norwegian of stealing pictures from his computer. During the trial, Carlsen countered that the singer had handcuffed him to a wall and beaten him with a chain because he was angry he had refused to sleep with him when they first met. O'Dowd did not give evidence during the trial. The court heard Carlsen describe how he sustained injuries during their meeting in April, 2007, from being beaten and handcuffed.

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