PR Guru Guilty On 8 Counts

British PR guru Max Clifford has been found guilty of eight indecent assaults on women and girls and will be sentenced at Southwark Crown Court May 2.

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British public relations guru Max Clifford arrives for trial in London April 28, where he was found guilty of eight indecent assaults on women and girls going back to 1966.

In the same court April 28, the jury cleared the 71-year-old celebrity spin doctor of two further charges of indecent assault but failed to reach a verdict on an 11th charge.

Clifford is the first to be convicted under Operation Yewtree, the police operation set up to investigate BBC DJ and TV personality Jimmy Savile.

He’s also the first person in English law to be convicted by jury of a historical sex crime.

Veteran BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall last June admitted to 14 counts of sexually assaulting 13 girls, some aged as young as 9.

“I have been told by my lawyers to say nothing at all,” Clifford told the UK media as he left the court.

Judge Anthony Leonard QC had warned him that being granted bail until sentencing 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 2013. He was arrested under a strand of the investigation concentrating on information received during the Savile investigation, although not directly connected to him.

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