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Bill Cosby, 80, has been found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault.

The 80-year-old comedian was accused of drugging and violating Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004 and was charged with three counts of aggravated indecent assault.

The jury – made up of seven men and five women – deliberated for 14 hours from Wednesday morning following the two-week retrial at Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania.

They delivered a guilty verdict on Thursday.


Bill Cosby arrives at court (picture: EPA)

He now faces 10 years in prison on each count.

He was said to have lashed out at prosecutors following the guilty verdict, after District Attorney Kevin Steele asked the judge to revoke bail.



The prosecution argued that the actor is a flight risk due to his private jet.

It was then Cosby reportedly shouted: ‘He doesn’t have a plane, you a–hole!’

The judge ruled that Cosby will remain free pending sentencing.

Outside the court his attorney Thomas Mesereau gave a statement.

‘We are very disappointed by the verdict,’ he said. ‘We don’t think Mr Cosby is guilty of anything. And the fight is not over.’

When asked if he was going to appeal, Mesereau and Kathleen Bliss said: ‘Yes, very strongly.’

The jurors spent 12 days hearing lawyers’ arguments and testimony from witnesses, including Constand and five other women, who claimed they were also drugged and sexually assaulted by the Cosby Show star.

It was reported one of the women asked Cosby through tears: ‘You remember, don’t you, Mr. Cosby?’

Kathleen Bliss and Tom Mesereau, lawyers for actor and comedian Bill Cosby, arrive for the second day of jury deliberations (picture: AFP)

Cosby had earlier claimed his encounter with Constand – a former employee with Temple University women’s basketball team – was consensual.

Constand testified Cosby – a trustee at Temple – drugged her and sexually assaulted her when she visited his home to ask for career advice.

Cosby’s defense team argued Constand ‘was a con artist, who wanted a piece of Cosby’s fortune’.

Dozens of women have accused Cosby of sexual misconduct, stemming from over the decades, however Constand’s allegations are the only ones that have resulted in criminal charges.

Attorney Gloria Allred, who represents 33 women who have accused Bill Cosby made a statement outside the court following the verdict.

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‘I want to thanks the jury, justice has been done!’ she shouted. ‘We are so happy we can finally say women are believed and not only on #MeToo but in a court of law, where they were under oath… where they testified truthfully, where there were attempts to discredit them and after all is said and done, women were finally believed.’

She added: ‘I’m the happiest I have been about any court decision in the last 42 years’.

The actor’s sexual assault trial was the first since the #MeToo movement began last year.

In closing arguments, defense attorney Kathleen Bliss positioned Cosby’s legal team as going up against ‘witch hunts, lynchings, McCarthyism.’

Cosby’s June 2017 trial ended in a mistrial.

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