Rolf Harris cleared of three sex offences
Disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris has has been cleared of three sex offences.
The jury at Southwark Crown Court has been discharged on the other counts he was facing.
The 86-year-old Australian was charged with seven offences said to have taken place over four decades.
The jury took 26 hours and 16 minutes to clear Harris of two charges of indecent assault and one of sexual assault.
Judge Alistair McCreath discharged the jury from deliberating on the further four counts he is accused of.
Harris was found not guilty of indecently assaulting a young autograph hunter when she visited him at a radio station in Portsmouth with her mother at the end of the 1970s.
It also cleared him of groping a blind, disabled woman at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London in 1977.
And he was also cleared the most recent charge he was accused of - sexually assaulting a woman in her 40s after the filming of a television show in 2004.
Harris, who did not give evidence at his second trial, showed no emotion as the verdicts were read out.
He is currently in jail serving five years and nine months following a 2014 trial which saw him convicted of 12 sex offences against four female victims, one aged as young as seven or eight.
But his defence team claimed the jury in the first trial had "got it wrong" and that the media frenzy had "without doubt made him vulnerable to people making accusations against him."
The prosecution team asked for one week to decide if they will apply for a retrial.
Comments
Post a Comment