By Tom Parmenter, News Correspondent
Shamed publicist Max Clifford has been told he must wait to hear the outcome of an appeal against his eight-year sentence.
Judges say they need more time to consider the sentence handed down for a series of sex attacks on young women in the 70s and 80s.
Clifford, who appeared in court via video link from jail, was sentenced in May after a seven-week trial.
One of the victims, who described her lewd encounter with Clifford to the jury, told Sky News: "I think his sentence is deserved, not only for his crimes but for his continued contempt towards women in general."
Many of the victims had been teenagers looking for work in the showbusiness world and went to Clifford because the PR man could make or break careers.
His office on New Bond Street in central London was described in court as his own "sexual fiefdom".
Giving evidence, he dismissed the women as "fantasists and liars" who were making the allegations in pursuit of compensation.
However, he was found guilty of eight sex attacks on four victims between 1977 and 1984, and the judge said he also believed other "supporting witnesses" who made further serious allegations.
The judge, Mr Justice Leonard QC, said in his sentencing remarks that he took into account Clifford's bizarre behaviour outside court, and how his offences would have attracted far greater penalties if they had been committed more recently.
The eight-year sentence surprised many people, including legal analyst Lyndon Harris, who said: "The judge here has put the Court of Appeal in a tricky position.
"The sentence is clearly manifestly excessive on the law as it was at the time, I don't think there's much doubt about that, but politically it will be difficult for them to reduce the sentence, less still halve it, in such a high-profile case."
Clifford is currently serving his sentence at HMP Littlehey in Cambridgeshire.
No date has been set for the judges to return their decision.
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