Carlsen said the singer appeared "wired" from cocaine. O'Dowd met Carlsen on the dating website Gaydar in January 2007 and hired him as a photographic model.ĭuring their first meeting – where Carlsen claimed O'Dowd had briefly given him oral sex – O'Dowd accused Carlsen of tampering with his computer. However, suggesting some scepticism of that view, the judge said the singer "would have shown true remorse" had he pleaded guilty to the charges. Not only will he lose the money but, more importantly, the chance to do what he loves." He will probably now never be permitted to perform in the United States or Japan, where he has an enormous - I believe the word is - fanbase. He went on: "There is something of an irony in that Mr Carlsen will make money out of this while the cost to the defendant is enormous. He assured the judge his client was now "on the way back from the nether world". Waterman also spoke of his client's "good character", describing O'Dowd as "the antithesis of the haughty and bullying star" who had got himself into "a world of paranoia". He said that O'Dowd had "genuinely believed" that Carlsen had stolen photographs from his computer. In mitigation, Adrian Waterman QC, defending, told the court O'Dowd's long-term drug use had played a large part in attack, which he described as "truly bizarre". In an apparently accidental allusion to Culture Club's 1982 No 1 hit Heather Norton, for the prosecution, asked the jury during the trial: "Did he really have to hurt him?"
When O'Dowd returned to the room with a box of leather straps, chains and sex toys, he said: "Now you're going to get it."Ĭarlsen told the jury he only escaped after wrenching the fixture free, but was beaten with a chain by the singer as he fled into the street in Shoreditch, east London. O'Dowd told him: "Now you're going to get what you deserve." Carlsen said he was then beaten and handcuffed to a wall fixture.
The altercation apparently stemmed from O'Dowd's belief that Carlsen had attempted to hack into his computer.
Carlsen said the atmosphere changed when O'Dowd returned to the flat after ostensibly popping out to buy milk and cigarettes. He then ambushed him together with the help of an unnamed man.
GEORGE NOT FOUND TRIAL
"Whilst I accept that Mr Carlsen's physical injuries were not serious or permanent, in my view there can be no doubt that your premeditated, callous and humiliating hand-cuffing and detention of Mr Carlsen shocked, degraded and traumatised." Carlsen, he added, had been "deprived of his liberty and his human dignity".ĭuring O'Dowd's trial last month, the jury was told that he had invited Carlsen into his bedroom after a naked photo session, during which they took cocaine. Passing sentence at Snaresbrook crown court, east London, Judge David Radford said the singer's offence was "so serious that only an immediate sentence of imprisonment can be justified". O'Dowd was found guilty last month of attacking the Norwegian model Audun Carlsen, 29, after he visited the singer's flat in London in April 2007.
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