Disgraced star Harris to be freed from jail
ROLF HARRIS is to be released from prison today, a court has heard.
The Australian-born former television star, 87, has been appearing by videolink at Southwark Crown Court in London, where he is standing trial accused of indecent assault.
Judge Deborah Taylor told the jury Harris would be released from Stafford Prison and would therefore appear in court in person on bail for the remainder of the trial.
Jurors had previously been told Harris had already been convicted and sentenced for other offences in 2014.
Former host Harris is standing trial accused of indecently assaulting three teenage girls in the 1970s and 1980s.
He is also alleged to have touched a 13-year-old girl’s breast after filming a children’s TV programme and asked her: “Do you often get molested in a Saturday morning?”
He is separately accused of twice groping a third girl, aged 16, after being paid £100 to appear on ITV celebrity show in 1978, and telling her she was “a little bit irresistible”, the court heard. Harris denies all charges. Giving evidence in court on the trial’s fourth day, one alleged victim was asked by prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC whether she was an “attention seeker”.
She replied: “I cannot imagine how anyone would conceive of doing this for any sort of kick.”
The case was adjourned until Monday.