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alp227

(32,053 posts) Tue Jan 14, 2014, 04:27 PM Jan 2014

Rolf Harris pleads not guilty to 12 counts of indecent assault

Source: The Guardian

Rolf Harris has pleaded not guilty to 12 counts of indecent assault spanning an 18-year period from 1968 and involving four alleged victims aged between seven and 19.

The 83-year-old artist and entertainer denied the charges during a hearing at Southwark crown court in London on Tuesday. He has yet to be arraigned on four separate charges of making indecent images of children.

The judge, Mr Justice Nigel Sweeney, set a trial date of 30 April.

Among the charges denied by Harris was one of indecent assault against a girl then aged seven or eight on a date between the start of 1968 and the start of 1970. He also pleaded not guilty to six allegations of indecent assault against one alleged female victim, aged 15 to 16, between April 1980 and a year later, as well as a separate charge connected to the same person, when she was 19, during 1984.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/14/rolf-harris-pleads-not-guilty-indecent-assault

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It's "charges for celebrity sexual assault on teens" day in the UK muriel_volestrangler Jan 2014 #1

muriel_volestrangler

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1. It's "charges for celebrity sexual assault on teens" day in the UK

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Tue Jan 14, 2014, 04:45 PM

Jan 2014

We also have the opening of 2 trials:

Coronation Street star William Roache indecently assaulted a 14-year-old girl in the men's toilet at the Granada TV studios in Manchester and then sent her a signed photo, a court has heard.

Sending the letter "was a sort of grooming as we nowadays know it," prosecutor Anne Whyte QC said.

Mr Roache, 81, from Wilmslow, Cheshire, denies two counts of raping a 15-year-old girl in East Lancashire in 1967.

He also denies five counts of indecent assault involving four girls.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25732224

(Coronation Street has been one of the most watched programmes in the UK for 50 years; Roache is, I think, the only actor to have been in it the whole time)

Former BBC Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis was an "opportunist" sex offender who targeted "vulnerable" young women, a London court has been told.

Mr Travis allegedly assaulted 11 victims, at places including the BBC and pantomimes, between 1976 and 2008.

One woman, aged 19, had been "assaulted live on Top of the Pops" in 1978, prosecutor Miranda Moore QC said.
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The DJ hosted the Radio 1 Breakfast show from 1978 to 1980 and was a regular host of Top of the Pops in the 1970s and 80s.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25726928

(Radio 1 is the BBC's national pop music station; hosting the breakfast show is the highest profile radio DJ job in the country)

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