Rolf Harris Trial: Jury Discharged As No Verdicts Reached

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40095612

This now appears to be the end of the series of charges against Harris

[DTCwordfan]

so is he back to where he should be or has he been released, mikey?

[Baldric]

You must be so disappointed Mikey.

[mikey4444]

DTC...according to the BBC, he is now released and not facing any new charges.

[ToraToraTora]

you sound gutted mikey!

[Peter Pedant]

Good
I am not sure if it is in the public interest to prosecute this sort of case. He said he couldnt remember anything

He was the one (Rolfie) who was asked by a relation - "another hundred thousand or I'll teeeell !" and he said no
the rest is as they say - history

It all depends ( he assaulted me - no I didnt) on how you do in the witness box - if the defendant scores "nul point" he gets a spell in the slammer

[hc4361]

Shows the jury service works - it would have been very easy to assume guilt simply because he has been convicted of similar offences.

[mikey4444]

TTT....I not pleased or anything else...I am merely reporting that, for now at least, the Harris bandwagon appears to be over.

By the way, where have you been for the last couple of days ?

[DTCwordfan]

well now he can go and paint a black hole and jump down it like Bugs Bunny for all he's worth.

[mikey4444]

Perhaps he will begger off back to Oz.

[ToraToraTora]

Does anyone speak PP? PMSL!

[douglas9401]

Damned if he didgeridoo, damned if he didgeridon't.

[agchristie]

hc > Shows the jury service works - it would have been very easy to assume guilt simply because he has been convicted of similar offences.

Agree entirely. Each case on its merits of course.

Keeping an open mind and meticulously appraising the evidence is vital to a juror.

[Khandro]

tricoteuse
ˌtrɪkəˈtəːz,French tʀikɔtøz/
noun
plural noun: tricoteuses

one of a number of women who sat and knitted while attending public executions during the French Revolution.
"as gleefully as the most ragged and revolutionary tricoteuse"

What is the masculine for this?

[Khandro]

tricoteur ?

[naomi24]

Khandro, men didn't knit.

[Mamyalynne]

Real men crochet.

[naomi24]

That could be it.

[goodgoalie]

I've often wondered how I could defend myself if someone suddenly came forward and said that I'd groped them in the dressing room after a gig in 1979 in, say, a pub in London. If there were no witnesses, it would be just her word against mine; but how on earth could I prove that it is not true?

[hc4361]

You can't prove it didn't happen and she can't prove it did. The only evidence is what you both say in court and the most convincing wins.

She would be more convincing and believable if she had been in the dressing room around that time (whether you were there or not) and could describe the decor, layout etc.

The vast majority of claims like that never get to court.

[goodgoalie]

But I did hundreds of gigs in the 70s and 80s, and I don't think I could describe the dressing room of any of them! And lots of the venues are no longer there......