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Nye Bevan

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Sun Jun 14, 2015, 01:29 PM Jun 2015

Rolf Harris calls victims 'slimy woodworm' in song penned in prison

A song in which Rolf Harris reportedly slurs his victims as “slimy little woodworm” has prompted calls for the disgraced children’s entertainer to be denied parole.

Harris, who was convicted last year of indecently assaulting young women and girls, wrote down the lyrics in a letter penned in jail, obtained by the Mail on Sunday. In the song, he accuses the victims, the youngest of whom was just eight when he attacked her, of being after his money, writing: “Come and join the feeding frenzy, girls.”

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Harris was sentenced to five years and nine months in prison at Southwark crown court in London last July, after being found guilty of 12 indecent assaults dating between 1968 and 1986. In the letter, which the MoS said it got from one of the 84-year-old’s friends who was appalled by it, Harris writes that he plans to record the song when “I get out towards the end of 2017”.

The Australian-born TV star and artist, a fixture of popular entertainment for six decades, rails about the “injustice” he has suffered but describes prison as “no hardship really”. In the song lyrics, he describes his victims as “foul accusers”, writing: “Perhaps you believe you’re pretty still, some perfumed sultry wench.”

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/14/rolf-harris-victims-slimy-woodworm-song-prison


The UK has no statute of limitations for serious sex offenses, unlike the rest of Europe and the US. Many famous showbiz personalities there have been convicted of sex crimes going back to the 70s and 80s.
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