Why is Kevin Spacey in court docket and what are the allegations in opposition to him?

The trial of the Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey has begun in London.

Spacey, 63, is in court docket within the UK on 12 costs following an investigation by Metropolitan Police.

The two-time Oscar winner’s trial is going down at Southwark Crown Court and is predicted to final 4 weeks.

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Jurors have been warned that though they could know the actor from movies and TV – and there will likely be widespread protection of the case within the media – they have to not talk about or analysis the case.

What is Spacey accused of?

Spacey faces 12 allegations in relation to 4 males, who’ve lifelong anonymity beneath intercourse offence legal guidelines.

The costs are:

• Three counts of indecent assault;

• Seven counts of sexual assault;

• One depend of inflicting an individual to have interaction in sexual exercise with out consent;

• One depend of inflicting an individual to have interaction in penetrative sexual exercise with out consent.

He has pleaded not responsible to all of them, together with his lawyer Patrick Gibbs KC beforehand telling the court docket his consumer “strenuously denies any and all criminality in this case”.

Spacey first appeared on the Old Bailey in July final yr when he confronted the primary 5 allegations in relation to a few of the boys.

They had been 4 counts of sexual assault and one in every of inflicting an individual to have interaction in sexual exercise with out consent and had been alleged to have occurred between 2005 and 2013.

In January of this yr he appeared once more – this time at Southwark Crown Court on an extra seven costs referring to the fourth and remaining complainant.

Those costs are three of indecent assault, three of sexual assault and one in every of inflicting an individual to have interaction in sexual exercise with out consent. They are alleged to have occurred between 2001 and 2005.

He is showing beneath his full identify Kevin Spacey Fowler and he has been granted unconditional bail.

The 63-year-old is best-known for starring in movies American Beauty and The Usual Suspects and the hit Netflix present House Of Cards.

He was additionally inventive director at The Old Vic theatre in London between 2004 and 2015.

The decide within the case is Mr Justice Wall.