Daily Mirror

Rolf may go without sex pervs’ rehab

- BY BEN ROSSINGTON

PAEDOPHILE Rolf Harris could leave prison without completing his sex offender rehabilita­tion course.

The shamed entertaine­r, 86, was jailed in 2014 for five years and nine months for indecent assaults on four girls, one aged just seven.

But he is not getting rehab because not enough classes are put on in Stafford prison, where he is being held.

Prison inspectors found that the course was only offered to prisoners who had six months left to serve.

Only 18 out of 104 eligible inmates were on the rehab programme – and 25 left last year without completing it.

An NSPCC spokesman said: “Stafford is a national sex offender hub. Treatment should be available to every inmate who needs it.

“Simply locking up offenders will not protect children from abuse.”

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