Rolf Harris Trial Verdict

[Jomlett]

Rolf Harris Guilty on all charges

[hc4361]

Joe Bloggs often gets away with it because the victim has no idea who he is.

[gina32]

welsh???? where did you get that from

[baza]

according to google he was born in Perth Australia,

[Mamyalynne]

Harris was born on 30 March 1930 in Perth, Western Australia, where his parents lived in the suburb of Wembley.[12] They were Agnes Margaret Harris (née Robbins) and Cromwell ("Crom") Harris, who had both emigrated from Cardiff, Wales.

[kvalidir]

Sorry my mistake, I knew there was a Welsh connection I'd heard about. Fine deport him then.

[Khandro]

What actually happened between him and the 7 year old girl please?
What form of assault was it? According to my dictionary an assault can be anything from something harshly said, to actual rape.

[hc4361]

Khandro, inappropriate touching in the presence of other people who were apparently unaware of it.

[DTCwordfan]

Apparently there's a difference in assault definition of when he committed the offences and today - today, he would be done for penetrative assault - a stretch of 7-9 years as his term. When he offended, it was plain assault and carries a lower penalty apparently. Probably 5 is my guessing, possibly enough to see him exit the prison in a cardboard box.

[mikey4444]

Khandro..here is a very useful BBC link, which will tell you everything about Rolf Harris and his crimes ::

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27907511

[Khandro]

Thanks for the link, for those screaming 'paedophile' this is what it says;
'One woman said she was aged seven or eight when she queued to get an autograph from Harris at a community centre in Hampshire in 1968 or 1969.
When she reached the front of the queue, Harris had touched her inappropriately with his "big hairy hands", she told the jury.
She said she had initially thought it might have been an accident but then he touched her again.
She said: "It felt very aggressive, and I knew that it wasn't an accident." She went on to describe how "he scared me because he was looking at me all the time".
The disgraced star, however, said he had been filming a TV series in the Australian outback at the time and the court heard that no evidence could be found that Mr Harris had been at the community centre.
When the allegation was put to the star, he told police: "I would simply never touch a child inappropriately."
He also showed his hands to the jury and denied they were hairy.'

She was standing in a queue surrounded by lots of people. Does this sound sufficient to 'Destroy someone's life' ?
It all sounds to me like a dreadful miscarriage of justice.

[andres]

Khandro-- He was supposed to have put his 'hairy hand ' between her legs in full view of everyone and then touched her again inappropriately.
The woman in Australia sold her story for around £30,000 and the friend of his daughters with whom he had a mutual 15years affair tried to blackmail him into giving her£25,000 (to start an animal sanctuary) or her brother would go to the press.

[andres]

Crossed threads -Khandro

[Khandro]

andres; Where did you get "between her legs" from?

[hc4361]

Khandro - here:
She then felt his hand “out of nowhere” go down her back and up between her legs, “aggressively and forcefully”, she said. “I knew it wasn’t an accident … I understood that was wrong.”

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/rolf-harris-guilty-the-victims-of-the-12-counts-of-indecent-assault-20140701-zsrip.html#ixzz36DxNyu6A

[Peter Pedant]

There is quite lot in the broadsheets about Bindi his daughter who stood up for him, being un-naturally pre occupied not with her father's innocence but with who will inherit his eleven million when the time comes...

is it her ( bindi ) Bindi wonders....

[jackthehat]

Khandro - Rather than seek to malign his victims, why don't you actually read up on the charges against Harris and the evidence supplied to the jury?

At the moment you are presenting yourself as an apologist for a serial sexual abuser and I'm sure that is not how you intend us to see you....

[andres]

Khandro----hc4361 has provided the link.

[Khandro]

andres; I've read it, I would have preferred to read it from the court proceedings direct, than from a sensationalist Australian newspaper.

jack; I'm not on trial! Being sceptical about this whole smelly affair doesn't make me an 'apologist'.