The ongoing Boy George chained up escort case continued yesterday, with more talk about the former Culture Club man's laptop.
As previously reported, George is accused of handcuffing and beating a male escort without his consent at the singer's Shoreditch home in April last year. Escort Audun Carlsen says that George turned nasty after accusing him of hacking his computer during the two men's first encounter. Despite seemingly making allegations against the escort even during that first meeting (I think), George continued to communicate with Carlsen via Gaydar. He later apologised for any accusations he had made against Carlsen and invited the escort back to his home. It was during that second visit the alleged assault took place - with George seemingly making new accusations against Carlsen regarding his laptop.
In amongst all this, Boy George, real name George O'Dowd of course, had reported his concerns regarding his laptop having been hacked to the police, and the officer who received the singer's complaint was in court yesterday. Key to his testimony was that while O'Dowd had reported his belief that his computer had been tampered with, that at the time he said he believed the hacker was a former employee who had previously watched him type in his password, and no mention was made that Carlsen may have been involved.
Boy George's lawyer, who seemingly wants to prove his client genuinely believed Carlsen many have hacked his laptop, suggested the officer, who admitted he hadn't written up George's complaint at the time and had only done so recently as part of the current case, had muddled things up - and that the former employee was one of several people the singer had suggested may have been responsible for messing with his PC.
But Det Con Matthew Foy told the court that, while he hadn't written up George's complaint at the time, he remembers his conversation with the singer well because it was unusual to be taking a complaint from a celebrity and because, well, you know "Mr O'Dowd is Boy George".
Foy added that police checked George's laptop at the time but couldn't find any evidence of tampering.
The case continues.