Trump appealing against sexual abuse verdict and five million dollar award

Former US president Donald Trump is to appeal against a jury’s sexual abuse verdict (Michael Conroy/AP/PA)

Former US president Donald Trump is appealing against a New York jury’s verdict awarding five million dollars (£4 million) to a magazine columnist after the jurors concluded he had sexually abused her in the 1990s and defamed her last October.

A notice of appeal was filed on Thursday in Manhattan federal court, the first step in a process that will move the civil case brought against Mr Trump by writer E Jean Carroll to a three-judge panel of the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals.