Rolf Harris sex assault trial jury considers verdicts

A jury has retired to consider its verdicts in the case of former TV entertainer Rolf Harris.

The Australian denies six counts of indecent assault and one count of sexual assault, allegedly spanning four decades.

The prosecution has argued it was in Harris’s nature to grope women, including young girls, in public places, saying he had been good at getting away with it.

Harris’s defence claimed he was innocent of not only these latest charges but also the 12 counts of indecent assault he was convicted of in 2014.

The jury in the first trial “got it wrong”, his lawyer Stephen Vullo QC told Southwark Crown Court.

On the first count, Harris is alleged to have put his hand up the skirt of a 14-year-old girl at a youth music event in London’s Lyceum Theatre in 1971.

In the latter part of the 1970s, he is alleged to have put his hand up the skirt of a young girl outside a local radio station in Portsmouth.

During a visit to Mo or fields Eye Hospital in London in 1977, Harris is accused of having groped a blind, disabled woman, kissing her neck and “slobbering over her”.

Another alleged victim was a teenager helping on the TV programme Star Games in the summer of 1978.

Harris denies all allegations.