Harris walks free after jury fails to reach verdict
ONE of the women whose complaints to police were at the heart of Rolf Harris’s two most recent trials for sexual assault has spoken out about the devastating impact the court case had on her family.
The woman, who alleged Harris assaulted her at a televised Star Games in Cambridge in 1978 when she was 16, said her family was torn apart by Harris’s defence team, who used private investigators to gather evidence to undermine witnesses’ testimonies. But she said she did not regret coming forward and felt “vindicated” after a second jury was unable to reach a verdict on his guilt.
“Despite Rolf Harris throwing millions of pounds at defence and private detectives, he wasn’t able to get a not-guilty verdict for something that happened nearly 40 years ago and where there were no witnesses,” the alleged victim said.