"Former Hey Dad! star Robert Hughes was targeted by one of his alleged victims in co-operation with the media, a Sydney court has heard.
In making his final address to the jury on Monday in Hughes' long-running trial on 11 child-sex charges, his defence lawyer referred to the significant number of paid media interviews a woman who worked with him on the show gave before she went to police with her abuse allegations.
"Is that what happens now?" lawyer Greg Walsh asked the Downing Centre District Court jury.
"The media do the job of the police and the police are happy for them to do it?"
""Ladies and gentlemen, use your common sense," Mr Walsh said to the jury.
"Is it really believable that a man who was by then one of the most well-known actors in the country would parade around a busy park with a 15-year-old girl in her school uniform?"
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