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Rolf Harris: Jailed for five years and nine months but shows no remorse - Telegraph



Rolf Harris: Jailed for five years and nine months but shows no remorse

Rolf Harris is told he only has himself to blame as he is jailed for five years and nine months for a string of appalling child sex offences

Photo: JULIAN SIMMONDS
By Martin Evans, Crime Correspondent

6:00AM BST 05 Jul 2014


there was mounting anger after Rolf Harris was jailed for less than six years for a string of appalling child sex offences that devastated the lives of his victims.


Child protection campaigners were so angered by the sentence, which means Harris could be freed in just over two and a half years, that the Attorney General was asked to reconsider the case.


In a withering assessment of his appalling crimes, the judge who presided over his trial, Mr Justice Sweeney, told Harris his reputation now lay in ruin but added: “You only have yourself to blame.”


Harris was convicted of 12 counts of indecent assault against four girls, the youngest of who was just eight-years old at the time.


Victims gave heart breaking impact statements to the court in which they outlined the devastating legacy the crimes had had on their lives.


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One of women, who had been best friends with his daughter Bindi, described how Harris had groomed her and used her like “his little toy” leaving her a quivering wreck who became an alcoholic while still a teenager.

Another of his victims, Tonya Lee, who was a 15-year-old aspiring actress when Harris groped her in a London pub, described how the attack had been the turning point in her life, robbing her of the ability to ever feel safe again.

The woman who was attacked as an eight-year-old said the assault had ruined her childhood, leaving her unable to express herself and unable to trust men.

She said she had carried what he did to her for most of her life adding: “On that day and in the space of a few minutes my childhood innocence was gone.”

Harris, who earlier travelled from his Bray home by boat, sat in the glass-walled dock at Southwark Crown Court with a striped suitcase by his side.

He remained virtually impassive as sentence was passed, with his daughter watching from the public gallery.

His frail wife Alwen did not attend court, despite having been there for much of the eight week trial.

Mr Justice Sweeney told Harris: “For well over 50 years you have been a popular entertainer and television personality of international standing – with a speciality in children’s entertainment. You are also an artist of renown.

“You have been the recipient of a number of honours and awards over the years. You have done many good and charitable works and numerous people have attested to your positive good character.

“But the verdicts of the jury show that in the period from 1969 to 1986 you were also a sex offender – committing 12 offences of indecent assault on 4 victims who were variously aged between 8 and 19 at the time.”

He went on: “You took advantage of the trust placed in you, because of your celebrity status, to commit the offences against three of your victims.

“In every case the age gap between you and your victim was a very considerable one. You clearly got a thrill from committing the offences whilst others were present or nearby.

“Whilst such others did not realise what you were doing, their presence added to the ordeal of your victims.”

The judge added: “You have shown no remorse for your crimes at all. Your reputation now lies in ruins, you have been stripped of your honours but you have no one to blame but yourself.”

It can now be revealed that Harris had also been facing four charges of possessing indecent images of children.

Police who raided his home in 2012 found the images stored on his computer.

But the Crown Prosecution Service announced it did not intend to pursue the charges.

However since the trial began scores of other potential victims have come forward, claiming to have been abused by Harris in the past.

It raises the prospect of further charges in the future.

Harris is the second high profile person to be jailed as part of the Metropolitan Police’s Operation Yewtree investigation, which was launched in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.

Earlier this year, the PR expert Max Clifford was sentenced to eight years in prison for a string of sex attacks.

Peter Watt, director of national services at the NSPCC, accused Harris of treating the trial like another of his performances.

He said: “Harris was opportunistic and brazen in targeting young girls and women. He took advantage of their trust in him and we heard through the evidence of his courageous victims just how profoundly damaging his abuse was on them for decades after.”

He added: “Harris has not shown any remorse for what he has done and treated the whole court case like just another performance. Thankfully the jury saw through this charade and he will now have a considerable amount of time to reflect on the impact of his crimes.”

[moseley2004]

Robert Hughes is his uncle too

[Honkey_Kong]

The guy in that article is NOTHING like Euroholic. Euro sells these kids drugs first!

[clarky.]

No where near long enough for the fvcking rat. It will be a walk in the park for him because he will be with the rest of the fvcking rat's. So he won't get any punishment in the jail from other inmates pure fvcking scum.

Thats british justice for you a fvcking joke and then he will be out in about 2 half years.

[DrewZ]

No where near long enough for the fvcking rat. It will be a walk in the park for him because he will be with the rest of the fvcking rat's. So he won't get any punishment in the jail from other inmates pure fvcking scum.

Thats british justice for you a fvcking joke and then he will be out in about 2 half years.

^ what?
Why wouldn't other inmates take this guy out?
I would expect he'd get whats coming to him when they find out hes a cho-mo.

[marcus300]

^ what?
Why wouldn't other inmates take this guy out?
I would expect he'd get whats coming to him when they find out hes a cho-mo.

Because he is in the VP wing seg along with the other SO, they mix with their own only.

[noon]

Rotten scum something wrong with how sentences are handed out.
Sex crimes should get 20 year min with no chance of admin seg.
I could rant for days on this shit.
I'd love to tell some truly amazing stories. But big brother is always got an ear to the wall.

[Dpyle]

Rotten scum something wrong with how sentences are handed out.
Sex crimes should get 20 year min with no chance of admin seg.
I could rant for days on this shit.
I'd love to tell some truly amazing stories. But big brother is always got an ear to the wall.

20 years?! Outside of certain statutory cases I say bullets are cheap!