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Rolf Harris Trial Verdict
Rolf Harris Guilty on all charges
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Lots of abusers are still very much alive and kicking and almost certainly still abusing. Google Elm Guest House for instance. Cyril Smith was never prosecuted because he knew where the bodies were buried. He didn't abuse boys in Rochdale on his own. Local journalists will tell you about the "dirty mac brigade" that used to turn up by train on a Saturday...
08:36 Wed 02nd Jul 2014
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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.
Khandro..here is a very useful BBC link, which will tell you everything about Rolf Harris and his crimes ::
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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.
'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.
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.
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.
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://
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://
