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Veteran entertainer Rolf Harris faces court trial for indecently assaulting under-age girls including a friend of his daughter.
The Southwark Crown Court has heard that Mr Harris was a “Jekyll and Hyde” character who escaped punishment for a string of indecent assaults on young women because his fame and reputation made him “untouchable”.
The children’s entertainer, 84, denies 12 charges of carrying out indecent assaults on his daughter’s friend and three other girls during the period 1968-86.
The alleged victims believed to age between seven and 19 when the offences said to have taken place.
Out of 12 counts, seven are alleged to have been carried out on one victim – his daughter’s friend – who used to live near the Harris family in south London during 1960s.
The jury in the court heard that the alleged victim started to use alcohol to cope with the tragedy from the age of 14 and was abused by Mr Harris until she was 29.
Sasha Wass QC has told the court: “The prosecution does not for a minute suggest that there is not a good, talented and kind side to Mr Harris, but concealed behind this charming and amicable children’s entertainer lay a man who exploited the very children who were drawn to him.”
There was also a “dark side” to Mr Harris, “which is sexually attracted to children and under-age girls” and “gave him the confidence to molest girls knowing that they could not object and, even if they did, nobody would believe them”.
The famous entertainer’s reputation was such that he was known as “the octopus” due to”the way that he would put his hands all over women.”
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