The Trial Andrew Lloyd Webber

(Court No. 1 at the Old Bailey, where the trial of STEPHEN WARD is taking place

WARD's defence counsel, JAMES BURGE, begins speaking to the jury.)

[BURGE]
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury: Was this life of Ward's led for fun, or profit? That is the key to this case: Was he conducting a business? There's a very, very wide gap between a man with an artistic temperament and obviously high sexual proclivities leading a dissolute life, and saying he has committed these offenses. Can you really imagine this man has been living on the earnings of prostitution? On a fair and impartial view, I will ask you to say that these charges have not been made out, and to find him not guilty

(He resumes his seat, to be replaced by the towering figure of the Crown Prosecutor, MERVYN GRIFFITH-JONES.)

[GRIFFITH-JONES]
Here's a monster
Of depravity
Who went hunting
Fresh and tender game

Picked up two young
Semi-prostitutes
Promised them
A first-hand taste of fame

If so minded
One might well infer
Profit was
His motive and his goal
When he first set foot in Murray's Club
Seeking victims that he could control