Former TV Entertainer Rolf Harris Facing Further Sex Charges

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Disgraced TV star Rolf Harris faces seven indecent assault charges, according to British prosecutors.

Harris, who is currently serving a jail sentence at Stafford Prison, is to be charged by the Crown Prosecution Service with seven counts of indecent assault on women and girls aged between 12 and 27, dating from between 1971 and 2004.

TVNZ reports:

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The 85-year-old Australian-born artist and musician is currently serving a term of nearly six years at Stafford Prison on similar charges.

“We have carefully considered the evidence gathered by the Metropolitan Police Service as part of Operation Yewtree in relation to Rolf Harris,” a CPS spokesperson said.

“We have concluded that there is sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest for Mr Harris to be charged with seven counts of indecent assault.”

Harris will appear at Westminster Magistrates Court on March 17.

London’s Metropolitan Police confirmed on Friday that Harris will be charged with two counts of indecent assault of a girl under the age of 14 in 1971, 1977 and 1983 and four counts of indecent assault on a woman aged 16 or over in 1977, 1978, 2002 and 2004.

Harris was sentenced in July 2014 to five years and nine months’ jail for indecently assaulting four girls in Britain between 1968 and 1986.

He is the most high-profile figure to have been convicted since Operation Yewtree was launched into celebrity sex crimes, following revelations in 2012 that late BBC TV host Jimmy Savile had been a prolific child abuser.