Jailed: former celebrity publicist Max Clifford
Disgraced celebrity publicist Max Clifford has lost a challenge against his eight-year jail sentence for sex offences.
The sentence was upheld at the Court of Appeal in London today.
Clifford loses sentence challenge
Clifford, 71, was convicted in May of eight historical indecent assaults on women and girls carried out between 1977 and 1984.
The jury could not reach a verdict on whether he groped a woman in his car after meeting her at a Wimpy bar in Morden in 1966.
He was allowed out of jail in August to attend his brother Bernard’s funeral, a former Merton councillor and mayor of the borough.
Clifford was photographed attending the funeral in handcuffs at North East Surrey Crematorium in Morden.
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