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The woman told the court she was taking a shower at their Hawaii hotel and was wrapped only in a towel when Harris gave her "one of his big hugs and tickles". When she was 15, she said Harris sexually assaulted her in her bedroom, before laughing and joking with her parents downstairs. The woman said she was too scared and intimidated by Harris's fame to tell anyone. After years of sexual abuse the victim was "emotionally dead", the prosecutor said.

In court, Harris admitted he admired the bikini worn by the teenager on the Hawaii trip but denied indecently assaulting her. His daughter Bindi told the court she was with her friend "every single moment of every single day" on the holiday and had not noticed any change in her behaviour.

However, during the trial Bindi wept as she described the moment she later discovered her father's sexual relationship with her friend. The prosecutor said key evidence was a letter Rolf Harris wrote to the alleged victim's father in It was effectively a confession of child abuse, the prosecutor alleged, and was a calculated attempt to avoid the police being informed.

The defence said the letter was consistent with Harris's claim of a year affair. When he refused to pay, she threatened that her brother would go to newspapers, the court was told. A second witness told the court she was 13 or 14 when Rolf Harris groped her buttocks at a celebrity event in Cambridge. Harris initially denied being in the city at that time. However, he later admitted he had been there after TV footage was dramatically uncovered mid-trial of him taking part in a episode of Star Games in Cambridge.

A third witness said she was only seven or eight years old when the entertainer assaulted her in Portsmouth after she had asked him for an autograph. She said the entertainer put his hand down her back and between her legs.

He then did it a second time, she told the jury. Harris's defence counsel suggested the entertainer had never been to the community centre in question and the witness must have confused him with another man. Another witness against Harris was an Australian woman who said the entertainer assaulted her at the home of family friends in Darwin when she was 11 or 12 years old in the late s.

The woman said she froze as Harris approached her, put his arms around her and gave her a tongue kiss. A New Zealand woman told the court Harris had a "dark and evil side" and indecently assaulted her when she was dancing with him when she was 17 years old. The court also heard evidence from an Australian make-up artist who says Harris groped her at Channel 7 in the mids when she was She said the entertainer was known as "the octopus" because of his roaming hands.

Former Australian actor Tony Porter told the court he witnessed Harris groping a different make-up artist in the mids. Another Australian witness, Tonya Lee, asserted that Harris had indecently assaulted her twice in an English pub during a theatre trip to the UK in The defence argued Harris was "a natural hugger and that left him open to false accusations". Rolf Harris will not give trial evidence. Woman says Harris claim 'not for cash'. Rolf Harris released from prison. Image source, Julia Quenzler.

Rolf Harris is appearing in court in person, having previously used a video link. Image source, Reuters. The trial continues. Published 23 May Published 22 May Start your Independent Premium subscription today.

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