victim, whom seven of the 12 charges relate to. this man claims kevin spacey assaulted him on a number of occasions, but today in court mr spacey said things did not happen in the way this man had described, in this violent, aggressive, painful manner. they had a very relaxed, respectful and developing relationship. he also claimed some of the accusations this man had made were madness, he said, as they simply never happened. now, in a trial like this, we do of course have a very famous actor involved and they of course will have famous friends and colleagues and we heard about some of those today, the likes of dame judy about some of those today, the likes of damejudy dench has been mentioned a number of times, when he wrote a letter to her and worked with her in the theatre. eltonjohn and val kilmer was mentioned at one point, but we are talking about the time he first heard these allegations from this initial victim. mr spacey said, i was