Kidulthood actor Adam Deacon guilty over abuse to Noel Clarke
He said a deacon guilty District Judge Payne Shenagh him: “I have been aware of the impact of this behavior would be”.
STARDOM: Adam Deacon and Noel Clarke starred in Kidulthood [CAPITAL PICTURES].
Adding that these threats “exacerbated” the harassment Mr Clarke felt, she continued: “The sheer number of messages that you sent is indicative of your intention to harass Mr Clarke”.
“You were clearly trying to illicit a response from Mr Clarke – otherwise why post #wallofsilence, #industry and #standuptobullies”.
He denied one charge of harassment without violence for posting hundreds of messages of social media between March 5, 2014 and December 19, 2014.
During the trial, Clarke told Hammersmith Magistrates’ Court: “We fell out in 2011 due to the fact that the films that I had made – Kidulthood and Adulthood – were very popular and in 2010 Mr Deacon asked if he could do a film which was a spoof of the film that I had done”.
Court heard that Clark helped initially deacon with the project, but this arrangement came to an end when he signed a contract that Deacon Clark and his team cut from the project.
Kidulthood actor Adam Deacon has been found guilty of posting abusive messages online about his co-star and writer Noel Clarke.
One of these photos was posted 81 times and read: “Kill the p**** on my ones – finding you today. Real talk”.
He said Deacon had also directed death threats at Mr Clarke via his Twitter account.
‘You just don’t know what is going to happen, ‘ he said.
Noel Clarke wrote the screenplay for 2006’s Kidulthood, in which Adam Deacon appeared.
Clarke said Deacon verbally agreed not to use the name, but then reneged on the arrangement.
Giving evidence, Deacon claimed he had not harassed Mr Clarke, who seemed to “have it in” for him from the beginning.
After being found guilty, Deacon was released on bail and is due back at Hammersmith Magistrates Court on August 20 for sentencing, Sky News reports. “He would bully and belittle me on set in front of people – it would be a constant thing”, the actor said.
Following their initial court appearance, Deacon was ordered by the court to make no contact with Clarke or any of his immediate family and prohibited from entering Kensington and Chelsea. However, the actor admitted posting some messages on Twitter making reference to bullying, but that these were not directed at Mr Clarke.
The actor, who is also a rapper and played firearms officer Robbie in Channel 4 police drama Babylon, which aired past year, showed no reaction as he was convicted.
Deacon told the court that he will struggle to find work until he is tried: “When I do acting they won’t insure me until the trial is done, so I have lost out all of that”.