Jury in Katie Price ex’s rape trial told to ignore egos

Richter added: “You may well put 90% of her evidence to one side, it’s irrelevant, it doesn’t help you.

“I’m sure you will concentrate on what is relevant and look for support to assess what she says.”

The prosecutor said jurors had seen enough of “the egos, posing and posturing”.

“You’ve seen the big personalities, the big egos in this case, and you’ll judge it, you’ll cut through it,” he said.

“You’ll decide whether those big voices drown out the voice of [the complainant] or whether that voice has made you sure on the counts of this indictment.”

Referring to messages between the alleged victim and Price in 2017 where the media personality told the girl “I will make you a little star”, Richter asked: “Is that the key to this case, that message?”

He added: “Is it the suggestion seriously for nine years Katie Price has been biding her time to make [the complainant] a star?”

Defence barrister Arlette Piercy said in her closing speech that Hayler had been consistent and clear throughout his defence in what had been a “rollercoaster ride for everybody in this court”.

She called for the jury to take care, be calm and rational, warning “emotion is enemy of reason”.

Piercy pointed to inconsistencies in the complainant’s evidence that on more than 30 occasions she said she did not know or could not remember.

“We submit lack of coherent account is an important factor which supports what we are saying and undermines the credibility of the witness as a whole,” Piercy said.

Hayler denies all the charges against him and says the allegations are a “smear campaign to ruin me” by Price.

The trial continues.

Additional reporting by Press Association.

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