Jonathan King is apparently to have his conviction for child sex offences reviewed. King, who has always insisted that he is innocent, was let out of prison last March after serving half of a seven year sentence for sexually abusing five boys during the 1980s. King says in a statement that he was in New York in 1985 when one of the alleged incidents took place and the Criminal Cases Review Commission, the government body set up to investigate miscarriages of justice, has agreed to review the case in the light of new evidence supplied by the pop mogul's lawyers.
In a statement released via his solicitors, King states: "Since being released, I have been able, with great difficulty, to assemble evidence which proves I was in New York on the very day I was supposedly indecently assaulting a youth in my house in London. The jury did not hear this critical evidence."