LONDON: Veteran Australian entertainer Rolf Harris was on Wednesday cleared of three sex offences by a London court, but the jury was discharged on four other counts after failing to reach a verdict. Harris, a household name in Britain for more than 50 years, was accused of six counts of indecent assault and one of sexual assault, taking place between 1971 and 2004. The jury took almost a week to find the 86-year-old not guilty of two indecent assault charges and of sexual assault. Harris was cleared of groping a blind disabled woman in London in 1977 and of sexually assaulting a woman in her 40s after the filming of a television show in 2004. After studying art in London, Harris found fame in the 1960s when he secured his own television show after landing work at the BBC.

Source: The Star February 08, 2017 13:56 UTC