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Rolf Harris has pleaded not guilty to seven charges of indecent assault and one of sexual assault. | Rolf Harris has pleaded not guilty to seven charges of indecent assault and one of sexual assault. |
The Australian-born artist and former television entertainer, 86, faces eight charges alleging he attacked women and girls between 1971 and 2004. | |
Wearing a grey suit and a multicoloured tie, the former Animal Hospital host appeared via videolink at London’s Southwark crown court on Thursday. | |
He spoke only to confirm his identity and to say “not guilty” to each of the eight charges as they were put to him. Judge Alistair McCreath set a trial date of 9 January 2017. | |
Some of the offences were allegedly committed at the BBC Television Centre in west London. | |
Harris is accused of molesting a girl under the age of 14 at the Wood Lane facility over the Christmas period in 1983. | |
Twenty-one years later Harris is said by prosecutors to have struck again at Television Centre, indecently assaulting a woman there in 2004. | |
Prosecutors also allege he molested girls at the Lyceum Theatre in Covent Garden, outside Radio Victory, an independent station in Portsmouth, and in Jesus Green, a park overlooking the river in Cambridge. | |
Three of the indecent assault charges relate to girls aged under 14, and four to women aged over 16. The sexual assault charge relates to a female aged 13 or over. | |
Harris will next appear before a court in July for a preliminary hearing. |