Rolf to be freed in six weeks
Paedo will dash to side of sick wif e
ROLF Harris is due to be freed from jail in six weeks – and will rush to the side his sick wife.
The paedophile, 87, has been told he will walk out of Stafford prison in the third week of June after nearly three years jail, which is roughly half his sentence.
A source said: “Rolf is now counting down the days. He isn’t enjoying jail life at all and is desperate to get out.
“His wife Alwen is 85 and has been in failing health, so he wants to be reunited with her as soon as possible.”
Harris will leave prison a month earlier than previously expected, after being jailed for five years and nine months in July 2014.
He was convicted of 12 indecent assaults against four girls – one aged just seven between 1968 and 1986.
But before his release date, Harris faces another crown court trial, accused of sex offences, beginning on Monday, May 15.
If found guilty, he could face an extended time behind bars.
He was cleared of three sex assaults in February this year.
He is now facing a retrial on three charges on which the jury was unable to reach a verdict, plus one new count.
Australian-born former children’s TV star Harris is said to be filling his time in jail writing murder mystery novels. He has shown no remorse for his crimes. In September 2015, the Sunday People revealed that after months of wrangling he had agreed to pay just £22,000 to his youngest victim Wendy Wild.
She was seven when he molested her at a children’s disco in Portsmouth in 1969.
The figure was the equivalent of 76p a day for her nightmares in an ordeal spanning more than four decades.
Ms Wild had rejected the Harris’s previous offers of £12,500 and £18,000. He has an estimated £11million fortune and owns a £5million house by the river Thames in Bray, Berkshire, where is planning to return to be with Alwen, his wife of nearly 60 years.
They have a daughter Bindi, 52.
Stafford is a category C jail, f or t hose considered unlikely to try to escape.
Category A is for the most dangerous criminals and category D jails are open.
Before his shame was exposed, Harris had a stellar career for half a century. He was a national treasure and won an MBE, OBE and CBE. After accidentally inventing the “wobbleboard” while drying a piece of wood, Harris became a pop star and had global hits with Two Little Boys, Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport and Jake the Peg.
In 1967, The Rolf Harris Show propelled him to A-list TV status in Britain.
With his catchphrase “Can you tell what it is yet?” he charmed a generation of children, boosting the popularity of art.