The jury in Rolf Harris's indecent assault trial has retired to consider its verdicts.
Justice Nigel Sweeney on Thursday asked the 12 jurors to begin their deliberations some six weeks after the trial started.
"You must not feel under any pressure of time at all," the judge said, adding only by that route could the jury deliver "true verdicts according to the evidence".
The judge previously spent three days summarising the evidence in the complex case.
Harris is charged with 12 counts of indecent assault relating to four girls in the UK between 1968 and 1986.
Another six women have given supporting evidence that the artist abused them in Australia, New Zealand and Malta between 1969 and 1991.
Harris denies touching any of the women inappropriately.
His defence team says the entertainer has been publicly humiliated and had his good reputation trashed during the trial, but the prosecution has failed to prove he assaulted anyone.
Lawyer Simon Ray told the court this week that "making allegations loudly and forcefully does not make them true".
Prosecutor Sasha Wass QC, however, has urged the jury to find Harris guilty on the basis that 10 alleged victims had given "chillingly similar accounts".
The prosecutor last week said indecent assault cases often relied on the word of one alleged victim against a perpetrator, but with Harris, many women had described his "deviant sexual behaviour".
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