Max Clifford trial: Jury sent out for laughing as alleged victim questioned about penis size

Photograph by Howard Lake

The jury at the trial of high profile publicist Max Clifford were went out of the court room today for a few minutes for laughing as an alleged victim gave testimony about Clifford’s penis size.

The jury at Southwark Crown Court heard from a failed fashion model who visited Clifford in 1983, when she was 17, and is one of Clifford’s seven alleged victims.

She told the court that she had been groped by the PR guru, and that he tried to get her to perform oral sex on him. Conflicting earlier evidence, she said that Clifford was well endowed, and prompted laughter from the jury when she said:

“I have a small mouth. I do, my dentist has always said…”

Her testimony conflicts with earlier evidence that Clifford had a “freakishly small” penis, with one witness, who is not one of his accusers, describing Clifford’s manhood as:

“Freakishly small…It’s no more than two and a half inches”

Clifford, 70, is accused of 11 counts of indecent assault against seven women. He denies all the charges.

The trial continues.