A tearful Kevin Spacey was discovered not responsible on Wednesday by a jury at a London court docket of committing historic intercourse offences towards 4 males.
After greater than 12 hours of deliberation, a jury acquitted the Oscar-winning US actor of 9 prices, together with sexual assault, inflicting an individual to have interaction in sexual exercise with out consent, and inflicting an individual to have interaction in penetrative sexual exercise.
Spacey, who turned 64 on Wednesday, started to cry and mouthed “thanks” to the jury, earlier than wiping away tears with a tissue.
After he was launched from the dock, he shook palms along with his attorneys earlier than leaving the court docket by way of a facet door.
Al Jazeera’s Rory Challands reviews.
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