{"id":140672,"date":"2018-06-13T14:36:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T14:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/music-mogul-jonathan-king-used-fame-to-lure-teenage-boys\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T14:36:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T14:36:49","slug":"music-mogul-jonathan-king-used-fame-to-lure-teenage-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/music-mogul-jonathan-king-used-fame-to-lure-teenage-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Music mogul Jonathan King &#8216;used fame&#8217; to lure teenage boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Music mogul Jonathan King\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/5391\/production\/_97139312_hi040870821.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Getty Images<figcaption>Image caption                                      Jonathan King is accused of assaulting 11 teenage boys in the 1970s and 80s                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Former DJ and music producer Jonathan King used his fame to sexually assault teenage boys, a court has heard.<\/p>\n<p>The 73-year-old, of Bayswater, west London, showered the boys with gifts or promised sex with girls their own age, prosecutor Rosina Cottage QC said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr King is also said to have lured youngsters into his car before driving them home and giving them alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>He is standing trial at Southwark Crown Court where he denies 24 serious sexual assault offences between 1970 and 1988.<\/p>\n<p>He is alleged to have carried out attacks on 11 boys aged between 14 and 16.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor Rosina Cottage QC told the jury of of five men and seven women: &quot;When they were in his power and in no position to repel his advances he would assault them. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;It appears that it was a game of manipulation and power.&quot;  <\/p>\n<p>The jury was told the gifts included records and concert tickets and the boys were also shown pornography.<\/p>\n<p>Mr King is appearing in court under his real name, Kenneth George King. <\/p>\n<p>The trial continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty ImagesImage caption Jonathan King is accused of assaulting 11 teenage boys in the 1970s and 80s Former DJ and music producer Jonathan King used his fame to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}