The altercation apparently stemmed from O'Dowd's belief that Carlsen had attempted to hack into his computer. Carlsen said the atmosphere changed when O'Dowd returned to the flat after ostensibly popping out to buy milk and cigarettes. He then ambushed him together with the help of an unnamed man.
'Whilst I accept that Mr Carlsen's physical injuries were not serious or permanent, in my view there can be no doubt that your premeditated, callous and humiliating hand-cuffing and detention of Mr Carlsen shocked, degraded and traumatised.' Carlsen, he added, had been 'deprived of his liberty and his human dignity'.ĭuring O'Dowd's trial last month, the jury was told that he had invited Carlsen into his bedroom after a naked photo session, during which they took cocaine. Passing sentence at Snaresbrook crown court, east London, Judge David Radford said the singer's offence was 'so serious that only an immediate sentence of imprisonment can be justified'. O'Dowd was found guilty last month of attacking the Norwegian model Audun Carlsen, 29, after he visited the singer's flat in London in April 2007.
