The shamed publicist admits today is “not the best day” of his life as a judge sentences him for eight sex offences.
It is a better day for the victims of his crimes.
PR guru Max Clifford has been found guilty of a string of sex attacks on teenage girls.
The 71-year-old became the first person to be convicted under the high profile Operation Yewtree sex crime investigation at Southwark Crown Court.
He was found guilty of eight indecent assaults, cleared of two and the jury was unable to reach a verdict on one other.
The guilty verdicts relate to four women, aged between 15 and 19 at the time of the offences, between 1978 and 1984.
The verdicts were taken in a hushed but packed courtroom, given by the forewoman of the jury on its eighth day of deliberations. Clifford sat still in the dock as the jury forewoman returned the verdicts.
He could be seen breathing deeply as he listened through a hearing loop.
The publicist walked out of the courtroom with friends and supporters in complete silence, one of them patting him on the shoulder as he walked.
He walked outside to face the media, with his daughter Louise to his right, and said he had been “told not to say anything”.
Clifford was released on bail until his sentencing on Friday, but Judge Anthony Leonard QC warned him this was no reflection on the sentence that will be passed.
He said: “You must realise that the fact I have given you bail is no indication of what the final sentence will be.”
Clifford repeatedly denied the claims, calling his arrest and prosecution “a nightmare” and protesting his innocence.
Jurors in the trial – six men and four women – had started an eighth day of deliberation this morning.
Clifford would not say whether he would appeal the sentence.
