Well the jury is out.

The defence summing-up was running a very thin line I thought.

In essence it was that this eleven - year-old child's innocence was an act designed only to entrap the real innocence of a mega-rich forty-five year-old man. A poor generous and trusting soul - whose only wish was to provide other young children with the childhood that he never had - along with gifts of money and expensive watches. Along with alchohol, pornography and the need to share sleeping arrangements.

Perhaps I am being cynical? Perhaps the jury will be also - perhaps they will not.

I can't help but think back to the TV documentary that started all this - where the child involved was invited by BY MJ to Neverland to re-inforce Michael Jackson's delusion and imply that he was able to heal children.