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| Max Clifford guilty of eight indecent assaults | |
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| Publicist Max Clifford has been found guilty of eight indecent assaults on women and girls as young as 15 by a jury at Southwark Crown Court. | Publicist Max Clifford has been found guilty of eight indecent assaults on women and girls as young as 15 by a jury at Southwark Crown Court. |
| The 71-year-old, from Surrey, was found guilty of a string of charges over a period of nearly 20 years. | |
| He was cleared of two charges of indecent assault, while the jury failed to reach a verdict on another charge. | |
| Clifford, who is the first person to be convicted under Operation Yewtree, was bailed and will be sentenced on Friday. | |
| Judge Anthony Leonard QC warned him that the fact he was granted bail was no indication of the sentence that would be passed. | |
| Clifford was arrested by detectives from Operation Yewtree in December 2012, and charged in April the following year. | |
| BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said the verdicts were "hugely significant" as the first Operation Yewtree conviction. | |
| During the trial, prosecutors portrayed him as a well-practised manipulator, who promised to boost his victims' careers and get them to meet celebrities in exchange for sexual favours. |