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Boy George gets 15 months jail for handcuffing male model to bedpost
Paul Cheston, Courts Correspondent16.01.09
BOY GEORGE was jailed this afternoon for 15 months for handcuffing a male model to his bedpost.
Judge David Radford told the singer he had gshocked, degraded and traumatisedh his victim Audun Carlsen, 29, who claimed he was beaten with a chain.
The star looked pale but expressionless as he was led to the cells at Snaresbrook crown court.
George, 47, charged under his real name George OfDowd, was convicted last month of false imprisonment at his Shoreditch flat in April 2007. His barrister, Adrian Waterhouse, made a 40-minute speech hoping to save him from jail by claiming he had hit grock bottom but was now on the way uph from cocaine addiction.
But the judge said that the offence was so serious only an immediate prison sentence could be justified.He said George had used another man to help him whom he had refused to identify. gYou assaulted the victim of this offence ... inflicting additional wholly gratuitous violence,h he said.
Fans who had travelled from as far as New York and Canada reacted with shock to the sentence.
Paedophile Gary Glitter has abandoned his legal battle against being forced to sign the sex offenders register, staff at Harrow crown court said today. The former glam rocker, 64, signed the register on his return from Vietnam, where he served nearly three years in jail for molesting two girls.
Reader views (11)
this really a sad situation. I really hope that this gets appealed for one thing, And he gets out.
- Lia, kelowna British Columbia Canada
Until he gets clean and sober, he hasn't reached bottom.
God bless George, please get better.
- ImA, London
Ian Johns, High Wycombe
Gary Glitter served 2 of a 4 month sentence for a much much more serious offence. Justice done? What are you talking about ???
- Hermes, Enfield UK
I am the one that came from Canada and fan is an inappropriate term as I am considered a friend.
We were all shocked that the sentence was for fifteen long months. I am concerned about the immediate consequences of this sentence and only hope that with good behaviour he will be out of prison sooner.
- Kenneth Wiese, Edmonton, Canada
Still got great memories of your music. And also when you was on This Morning with Fern's husband, cooking, and you did a massive sneeze and had the studio and everyone else in stitches. Come on George we need you back.
- Sylvia Howard, Essex
Absolutely fantastic.
This has made my weekend. A fitting end to someone who has no respect for the law.
A right result.
- Ian Johns, High Wycombe
For someone whose image and beauty are so important, how can he allow himself to go so low. I mean, one can forgive him from almost everything, but being fat.
- Todd Thomas, london UK
Boy George, locked up with hundreds of men.......
He's landed on his feet
- simon Hanley, London
The trial judge`s comments are inappropiate and misdirected.
A Community service order would have been about right.
I hope Boy George appeals.
- Clive Allen, Brighton, UK
Let us hope that the singer has finally learned his lesson.
- Alf Bennett, London, England.
Sad to see one of this country's best ever singers going to gaol. My abiding memory of Boy George is hearing him singing Karma Chamaleon on the radio as I was being led into a cell in Birmingham many years ago. (Chins) up George, you can spend the time now writing some more brilliant songs and give us all a rest from the X Factor rubbish that thinks it's so special.
- Steve Burns, Portsmouth UK
