R Kelly on trial

I’ve been watching closely the developments in the R Kelly trial, which has been all over the news in recent weeks. The R&B star, famous for his bad boy antics and warblings about flying is on trial for 14 counts of making and posessing child pornography, in particular claims that he has made a video of himself having sex with an underage girl. If he’s convicted he faces up to 15 years in Jail.

R Kelly’s lawyers have based their defence around the fact that the quality of the tape is very poor, however the latest update is that an expert in video forensics has examined the tape and says that it has not been tampered with to make it look like the singer is in the film. The tape has been duplicated several times however, which has led to the poor quality.

So it’s not looking good for the R Kelly, however the jury have to be convinced beyond all reasonable doubt that it is the singer in the video, so we’ll have to just wait and see.