EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan King to fight sex assault charges

King, 62, who has always protested his innocence, claims he received an unfair trial. King was convicted at the Old Bailey in September 2001 of six separate paedophile offences, which were meant to have occurred some 20 years earlier. He was sentenced to seven years in jail and served half that time before being released on parole in March 2005.
He claims he was in New York when one of the offences – for which he received a six-year sentence – was committed in London. When he was released, King says he went through his papers and discovered that on the weekend in question – September 7 and 8, 1985 – he was in New York for the US Open Tennis men's final between John McEnroe and Ivan Lendl.
Speaking exclusively to Hot Press, his lawyer, Giovanni Di Stefano, said: “Jonathan King did not commit the offence (he was convicted of) and I’ll tell you why: on the dates they said that he allegedly buggered someone, he was in New York. We found the evidence – American Express. Well, they say, “We might have got the wrong date.” Well, fuck me, why don’t you say so? Why don’t you get it right on the indictment? We are still ongoing CCRC on that. I’m not going to let that go. I’m not saying that he’s not a homosexual, but you accuse him that he did this, but he was in America. So unless he has a 5,000 mile prick he couldn’t have done it. As far as I’m concerned, he was an innocent man. He got a ridiculously lengthy sentence.”