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Boy George guilty of imprisonment

 

 

Singer Boy George has been found guilty of falsely imprisoning a male escort at his flat in east London.

 

Norwegian Audun Carlsen, 29, said the former Culture Club frontman attacked him as he tried to escape from his Shoreditch flat.

 

The musician, being tried under his real name George O'Dowd, alleged that Mr Carlsen hacked into his laptop and stole photographs.

 

O'Dowd had denied one count of false imprisonment.

 

The singer is expected to be sentenced on 16 January.

 

He did not give evidence himself during the trial.

 

However, the court heard that O'Dowd told police he handcuffed Mr Carlsen to his bed on April 28 last year while he investigated the alleged tampering of his computer.

 

O'Dowd accused Mr Carlsen of obtaining photos of himself from his laptop, taken by O'Dowd when the pair had met three months earlier.

 

Mr Carlsen told the court that O'Dowd concocted the story about computer tampering so he could punish him for not having sex during the first meeting.

 

Mr Carlsen told the court: "I think he couldn't handle the refusal - me not having sex with him."

 

Their first meeting seemed to be going well until the singer started to suspect Mr Carlsen of hacking into his computer, jurors heard.

 

However, they parted on good terms and the singer paid the younger man £300 of the £400 they had agreed.

 

In the weeks that followed they exchanged emails in which the singer accused Mr Carlsen of breaking into his computer system.

 

The pair had made contact on the social-networking site Gaydar.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7766624.stm

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