The key allegations against Noel Clarke - and the judge's response

Multiple witnesses gave grounds astir their experiences of moving with Noel Clarke during his libel proceedings - including women who had "nothing to summation and everything to lose", accidental the Guardian journalists who carried retired the investigation.

Before the paper published its study connected allegations of inappropriate behaviour and intersexual misconduct successful 2021, Clarke was a immense occurrence communicative successful the UK movie and TV manufacture - the acclaimed filmmaker down Kidulthood, prima of deed shows including Doctor Who and Bulletproof, and recipient of a BAFTA rising prima grant and different for his publication to British cinema.

Clarke denied immoderate allegations of inappropriate behaviour oregon intersexual misconduct, and successful 2022 helium sued the publishers of the paper for libel.

Following a proceedings earlier this year, a High Court judge, Mrs Justice Steyn, has now dismissed his claim, uncovering the meaning of the newspaper's study and different consequent articles it published was "substantially true".

The proceedings heard grounds from aggregate witnesses, including immoderate women whose existent names were not used. Their accusations against the histrion and filmmaker included claims of inappropriate comments, sharing nude photographs without consent, and groping.

Here are immoderate of the cardinal allegations - and the judge's response.

'Maya'

An histrion known arsenic "Maya" worked connected 1 accumulation with Clarke and besides auditioned for another, the justice said.

She alleged she had been taxable to comments and looks from Clarke, and felt pressured to beryllium bare during a country for a TV programme.

Recording of a telephone telephone betwixt Clarke and the histrion was heard successful court, including speech astir this scene.

"It was an uncomfortable experience," Maya said successful the call. "We were rehearsing the romanticist scene… I didn't accidental thing to you. I felt pressured to beryllium bare from you successful that scene."

Clarke said successful tribunal that helium believed she was "acting" connected the telephone up of making allegations against him.

In her ruling, Mrs Justice Steyn recovered Maya had been "sexually harassed, pressured and touched" by Clarke without her consent.

"It is evident that helium was insensitive to the discomfort helium provoked," the justice said. "But arsenic is wide from his comments successful the recorded telephone call, and from the grounds generally, Mr Clarke would habitually, and lasciviously, look young, charismatic women up and down."

Floor runner

One pistillate who worked arsenic a level runner said her acquisition of moving with Clarke was "extremely unpleasant" and that helium was "rude and continuously belittling" towards her from the outset, according to tribunal documents.

She said Clarke did not behave the aforesaid mode towards different antheral runner and that she "dreaded being alone" with him arsenic she would beryllium "routinely undermined". She said she became "extremely anxious" and had her archetypal panic onslaught during filming erstwhile "Noel was ignoring my instructions and I couldn't transportation retired my job", which she described arsenic humiliating.

The justice recovered she gave "clear, honorable and reliable evidence", and added: "She was a young woman, successful a acold subordinate role, who helium singled retired for this belittling and bullying treatment. It is probable that helium acted successful this mode for nary different reasons than that helium had the powerfulness to bash so, and helium recovered it amusing."

'Penelope'

One actress, known arsenic "Penelope", said she worked connected a enactment country with Clarke and that they discussed "perhaps wearing patches oregon covers", but Noel was "insistent that helium didn't deliberation this would enactment and said helium wanted to 'keep it natural'."

In her witnesser statement, Penelope said she begged him to halt asking her to look astatine him portion helium was exposed and to let others backmost into the room.

She said she felt "disgusted, shocked and frightened", and acrophobic that helium had "created an content to the unit that I was complicit successful immoderate was happening down that closed door".

In her ruling, the justice said she recovered Penelope to beryllium an honorable witnesser and recovered it was not indispensable for her to beryllium bare from the waist down for the scene.

She added: "I person not recovered that the request for 'Penelope' to beryllium bare beneath the waist for the filming of the enactment country was introduced for Mr Clarke's intersexual gratification, but helium did past instrumentality vantage of it for that purpose."

'Imogen'

Clarke invited an histrion known arsenic "Imogen" to meal successful 2014, erstwhile she was 20, the proceedings heard.

Imogen alleged helium propositioned her for enactment and offered to instrumentality photos, and besides talked astir going to brothels and tried to buss her connected the thoroughfare aft the meal.

He looked "furious" erstwhile she avoided his kiss, she claimed.

Her relationship was "honest", and prevention for a fewer insignificant points, "it was besides reliable and accurate", the justice found.

'Mila'

Another histrion known arsenic "Mila" described taking portion successful a country that required nudity from the waist down.

During the shoot, helium besides told her to crook over, asked her to beryllium connected his lap, and made inappropriate intersexual comments, she said.

Again, the justice recovered she had "no crushed to lie".

While Clarke denied the allegations, the justice concluded The Guardian had, prevention for a mates of points, proved its lawsuit successful respect of Mila.

Gina Powell

Gina Powell was portion of Clarke's accumulation company, Unstoppable, betwixt 2014 and 2017.

She alleges helium groped her successful a lift, exposed himself to her successful a car, and brushed disconnected concerns astir his intersexual behaviour towards different women. He besides kept bare pictures of others, she claimed.

Ms Powell told the tribunal she had been done years of "guilt" watching however Clarke behaved with different women, which led to her speaking out.

The justice recovered that connected 1 juncture wherever Clarke pinched Ms Powell's bottommost erstwhile they were being photographed, "his intent was not sexual", and it was "intended arsenic a affable and jocular effort to provoke a startled expression".

However, she besides ruled that Ms Powell was "an honest, reliable" witnesser and accepted the filmmaker had shown her nude photographs, arsenic good arsenic her grounds connected what happened successful the car and lift.

'Ivy'

One woman, known lone arsenic "Ivy", said successful a witnesser connection that she had had a little narration with Clarke, portion helium was married, and alleged she aboriginal discovered helium had shared nude photographs of her without her consent.

Ivy said she was "horrified" to observe aboriginal that the backstage images had been shown to others.

"Trusting him, I consensually sent him a tiny fig of nude photos of myself," she said. "I expressly told him that helium should not amusement them to anyone... I believed that helium would respect that."

The tribunal heard grounds from others who corroborated her account.

The judge, successful her ruling, recovered The Guardian had established Clarke "revealed bare photographs" of Ivy without her consent and shared them with others.

Jing Lusi

Actress Jing Lusi, known for films including Crazy Rich Asians and bid including Gangs Of London and Red Eye, worked with Clarke connected the movie SAS: Red Notice, which was filmed successful Budapest successful 2018.

She said that during a dinner, helium suggested to her that they could bash a read-through of the publication successful his "bed" oregon "bedroom".

He besides told her helium had "fantasised" astir her and described what helium wanted to bash to her, successful a abstracted incident, she alleged. She said this near her feeling "disgusted".

Clarke denied her allegations.

In her ruling, Mrs Justice Steyn said that portion she accepted Ms Lusi's account, she did find that successful circumstances wherever Clarke's behaviour towards her was not an maltreatment of power, "the events described did not assistance the Guardian successful establishing the information defence".