Mosley orgy had 'potential criminal' aspect.

Max Mosley has been accused of bringing the disrepute into which he has fallen entirely upon himself, with his activities being described as having a 'potential criminal flavour' - as the court case in which he is suing the News of the World for defamation and breach of privacy continued today (Wednesday).

In arguing its case that the front page expos? - in which it alleged the disgraced FIA President had indulged in a 'sick Nazi orgy with 5 hookers' - was in the public interest, News of the World editor Colin Myler told the High Court that it was 'absolutely not true' that the vigorously denied 'Nazi connotations' to the five-hour, ?2,500 sado-masochistic orgy had been fabricated.

"It is what Mr Mosley did," Myler is quoted by the Press Association as having told Judge Mr Justice Eady. "The News of the World did not take Mr Mosley kicking and screaming to that apartment, that flat in Chelsea.

"The News of the World did not engage five girls for five hours of what went on - which was brutal."

The question over whether the session was 'brutal' has generated many arguments and counter-arguments, with Myler insisting blood was drawn in response to the assertion from Mosley's defending QC, James Price, that one would expect beatings during an S&M session.

"You say it was S&M but blood was drawn," Myler insisted, adding that the role-play even had a 'potential criminal flavour', according to CNN. "I know it was drawn because he had a plaster on his bottom. I think it was after he'd had 15 beatings of the cane."

Myler also replied affirmatively to Price's question about whether the News of the World was seriously accusing Mosley of 'instigating a crime upon himself', adding that he believed the story was one of 'legitimate public interest and one that I believe was legitimately published'.

The case continues.