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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, 86, entered the pleas at London’s Southwark crown court. The Australian-born artist and former television entertainer, 86, faces eight charges alleging he attacked women and girls between 1971 and 2004.
He faces seven charges of indecent assault on girls and women spanning four decades and dating back to the early 1970s. Wearing a grey suit and a multicoloured tie, the former Animal Hospital host appeared via videolink at London’s Southwark crown court on Thursday.
Some of the offences were allegedly committed at the BBC Television Centre in Wood Lane in west London. 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.