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[Tommi]

http://www.9news.com.au/world/2017/0.../?ocid=9newsfb

A woman has told a London court that making a groping claim against Australian entertainer Rolf Harris was the hardest thing she had ever done but it was never about compensation, only about "vindication and justice".
The woman said on Monday that Harris came up to her at the BBC Television Centre in 1983 when she was 13, put his hand under her breast and said "Do you often get molested on a Saturday morning?"
The 87-year-old entertainer is facing a jury trial at Southwark Crown Court on four indecent assault charges involving three complainants
He arrived to court in a black Audi and gave a wave to waiting media as he walked into Southwark Crown Court today.
On Friday, Harris was released from Stafford Prison where he had been serving time for previous convictions.
Harris, wearing a dark suit and tie, sat quietly in a glass booth in the courtroom listening to the woman's evidence with the help of court earphones.
Under questioning by defence lawyer Stephen Vullo the woman, now aged in her late 40s, denied being interested in seeking compensation from Harris over her groping claim.
She told the court that when she informed her older sister and her parents what Harris had done they had not believed her.
She said that after not being believed by her family and other people for nearly 30 years it was very hard to take a complaint to police.
"It's been probably the hardest thing I've ever done in my life."
The woman said going through the police investigation and court process had been "awful".
When questioned by prosecuting lawyer Jonathan Rees she said she had not sought compensation in the case and did not intend to.
"I can't understand how anyone would want to profit from something like this?
"All I want is finally, vindication and justice for people this has happened to over the years."
The woman said that earlier in the day in question Harris had sat with her and other children visiting the television centre and drawn pictures with them.
She said she was very into art so Harris was one of her idols at the time.
The woman admitted that after the incident she had put Harris' autograph in her autograph book but she said she was confused after her family's reaction to her complaint, though she knew he had done something wrong.
The woman's older sister also gave evidence on Monday, telling the court that Harris had been "quite cuddly" with her younger sibling.
She said her sister had called Harris a "perv" but at the time she found that "very difficult to believe".
The trial continues.

Should we kill him? Why should Kiddie Fiddlers be allowed to live?
Sick vile fucking peado.

[rogueMatthias]

This is one of these cases I'm on the fence with.

If you look at the original trial, and the second trial, it's genuinely worrying how little evidence there was and how dodgy all the witnesses were. Look into it case by case and who the people are and their history and the whole thing is super sketchy.

One had already been paid substantially to sell her story, she admitted that shed lied to the police about large parts of her story, and her ex boyfriend said in court she was making it up. Guilty verdict.

A second, Harris himself had actually gone to the police to report her as she'd previously tried to blackmail him about their relationship (with no mention of her being under age).

A third, literally the ENTIRE evidence was her memory from when she was 6 or 7 but can't remember when exactly. They couldn't prove he'd even been in the county at the time - They even checked 10 years worth of local papers of newsletters for any mention he'd been there. They even went door to door round the town and couldn't find anyone who remembered him visiting. the polilce admitted in court that they had no evidence he'd been there and it was still a guilty verdict.

I don't know what happened, It seems he's a bit of a lech and creep at the very least, but it's scary that people can just be thrown in jail with hearsay and little other evidence needed.