Rolf Harris sex assault conviction quashed

ROLF HARRIS has had a conviction for indecent assault against an eight-yearold girl overturned after new evidence doubting the credibility of a prosecution witness emerged.

Three Court of Appeal judges in London yesterday ruled that the conviction was “unsafe”, but rejected applications by the 87-year-old to challenge 11 others for indecent assault. Harris was to an allegation that Harris indecently convicted of 12 indecent assaults at assaulted the girl in 1969, at a leisure London’s Southwark Crown Court in centre in Portsmouth. The judges ruled June 2014 – including one on an eightyear-old that “looking at the totality of the evidence” autograph hunter. on the remaining 11 counts, “we He was released last May after serving find nothing that causes us to doubt the three years of a sentence of five safety of those convictions”.

years and nine months in jail. The prosecution did not seek a retrial The overturned conviction related on the quashed count.