Justin Lee Collins jury begin deliberations The panel of nine women and three men at St Albans Crown Court began its deliberations on a charge that Collins subjected 38-year-old Anna Larke to domestic and emotional abuse. The court heard claims during the case that the bearded ex-comic, who first came to prominence on the Channel 4 entertainment show The Friday Night Project, made Miss Larke tell him details of all her previous sexual encounters in graphic detail which he then recorded in a Pukka Pad notebook. Collins, of Kew, south west London, denies the single charge of harassment and said Ms Larke, who moved in with him in January 2011, was obsessive, jealous and possessive and would send him a "barrage" of text messages wanting to know where he was and who he was with.The 38 year-old celebrity also denies attacking her in any way. Collins and Miss Larke, a public relations officer, met at a corporate event in 2006 and began an affair in 2007 to 2008 before splitting up. The relationship resumed at the end of 2010 after the defendant's marriage to his wife Karen, the mother of his sons Archie, seven, and Harvey, four, broke down. The former comedian and Miss Larke, lived together from January to July last year in a deeply troubled relationship as she tried to overcome alcoholism, the court has heard. Collins is accused of making her close accounts with social networking websites, always sleep facing him and throw away DVDs because they featured actors she found attractive. He has denied all those claims and also denied making death threats against her. She claimed he began a campaign of verbal and physical abuse against her saying she was "riddled" with sexually-transmitted diseases. Collins said the seven-month relationship with Ms Larke was "absolute hell." "I thought she loved me and was crazy about me," he said. But it turned out only the second part was true.