Prosecutor: Spector a 'demonic maniac'

Phil Spector has been labelled a "demonic maniac" when drunk, and a "very dangerous man" around women, during his murder retrial.

Prosecutor Truc Do made the comments during her closing arguments in the case.

Spector is on retrial for the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson. The original trial ended when a jury could not reach a unanimous decision in the case.

Do provided the jury with testimony from five women who claimed that the producer confronted them with guns when they tried to leave him, Billboard reports.

"This case is about a man who has had a history of playing Russian roulette with the lives of women. Five women got the empty chamber. Lana got the sixth bullet," the attorney said.

At the end of Do's arguments, Spector's lawyers moved for a mistrial on the grounds that she had overstepped the bounds of pretrial rulings in attacking his character rather than focusing on evidence. The judge denied the motion.