Jury set to decide writer’s claim that Donald Trump raped her

Nine New Yorkers will decide whether Donald Trump is liable for the alleged rape of a journalist in a Manhattan department store almost 30 years ago, when jury deliberations begin on Tuesday in a civil case brought against the former US president.

E Jean Carroll, a former advice columnist and television personality, filed the lawsuit last year, after a New York law allowed claims previously barred by the statute of limitations to proceed for a limited time period.