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| Rolf Harris trial: Girl 'shocked by hotel room assault' | Rolf Harris trial: Girl 'shocked by hotel room assault' |
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| A woman has told a court she was abused by Rolf Harris when on holiday with the entertainer's family in Hawaii. | |
| She said she was 13 at the time of the holiday, having been invited by his daughter Bindi, a friend of hers. | She said she was 13 at the time of the holiday, having been invited by his daughter Bindi, a friend of hers. |
| Southwark Crown Court heard she was left "shocked" by the alleged hotel room assault, not included among the charges because it happened abroad. | |
| Mr Harris, 84, denies 12 counts of indecently assaulting her and three other girls from 1968-86. | Mr Harris, 84, denies 12 counts of indecently assaulting her and three other girls from 1968-86. |
| His alleged victims were aged between seven or eight and 19 when the offences are said to have taken place. | His alleged victims were aged between seven or eight and 19 when the offences are said to have taken place. |
| Seven of the 12 counts are alleged to have been carried out on the woman, who lived near the Harris family in south London in the 1960s. | Seven of the 12 counts are alleged to have been carried out on the woman, who lived near the Harris family in south London in the 1960s. |
| The alleged hotel room assault was before such offences abroad could be prosecuted in the UK. | |
| 'State of shock' | |
| The woman, who gave evidence from behind a screen, said Mr Harris gave her a "pretty creepy" hug before the assault in a Hawaii hotel. | |
| "The way he hugged you and touched you all over, it was cringey," she told the court. | |
| She told the jury she was only wearing a towel at the time of the assault and that Mr Harris told her she was "lovely". | |
| "I just thought: 'Oh my God, what's happening?'," said the woman, the first prosecution witness to appear in the trial. | |
| The assault lasted for a few seconds, after which Mr Harris acted as if nothing had happened, the court heard. | |
| The alleged victim said she did not tell Bindi or Mr Harris's wife Alwen Hughes. | |
| "I was shocked and panicked by it," she said. "I didn't know what to do. I sat on the end of the bed in a state of shock, really." | |
| Mr Harris also assaulted her after she had been snorkelling while on the same holiday, the court heard. | |
| He is alleged to have touched the teenager inappropriately as he was wrapping a towel around her after she came out of the sea. | |
| Asked by prosecutor Sasha Wass QC if she had considered shouting at Mr Harris to stop, she replied that as an "excruciatingly shy" child she did not want to "cause mayhem". | |
| She told the court she was scared of Mr Harris from a young age. | |
| Mr Harris, from Bray in Berkshire, entered a not guilty plea at an earlier hearing. |