Defence counsel for an Irish celebrity accused of the defilement of a 16-year-old girl a decade ago has suggested to jurors that their deliberations should focus on when the woman told the truth about her age.Continuing his closing speech today, Morgan Shelley BL told jurors that the defence say nothing sexual happened between the man and the complainant before her 17th birthday.
He said his client recalls the conversation about the woman's age taking place in January 2011 as it is “timestamped” by when he got braces. He said the man “actively” looked for independent, verifiable” evidence such as the records of the date when he got braces. He suggested that prosecution case in relation to the first alleged incident is that his client “knowingly committed a really serious sexual offence in a stairwell that he well knew anyone could walk into at any moment” rather bring the woman to his home nearby.
He said the woman offered an “unusual” version of events in her evidence and this was the “one time” he put it to the complainant that her account couldn't be believed.
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