Singer-turned-DJ Boy George has been jailed for 15 months for handcuffing a male escort to a wall and beating him with a metal chain.

The former Culture Club frontman imprisoned Audun Carlsen during a drug-fuelled naked photoshoot at his flat in east London.

Sentencing the musician - real name George O'Dowd - the judge at Snaresbrook Crown Court said he was guilty of "gratuitous violence".

The judge also condemned his "premeditated", "callous", and "degrading" actions which "traumatised" his victim.

Norwegian Mr Carlsen, 29, fled in his underpants and alerted police after the attack, in April 2007.

It happened after O'Dowd accused Mr Carlsen of stealing photos of himself from a laptop, taken when the pair met three months earlier.

Boy George arrives at court before he was sentenced to jail

The victim was dragged along the floor towards the bed and a manacle was put on his right hand and attached to a hook drilled into the wall.