Rolf Harris 'aggressively' abused a seven-year-old autograph hunter on stage after performing his hit Two Little Boys for a group of children, a court heard today.



The witness, now in her fifties, burst into tears as she told Southwark Crown Court: 'I wasn't the same child' after the alleged attack at a community centre in Portsmouth in 1969.



She said she queued with other children for Harris' autograph but 'out of nowhere' he twice put his hand between her legs.



'I wanted to scream out what are you doing but it didn't come out. My life changed that day', she said.

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On trial: Rolf Harris, his daughter Bindi Harris (left) and niece Jenny (right) arrive at Southwark Crown Court today where a woman said she was abused by the star when she was seven

The jury heard that she threw away the autograph afterwards.



Describing what happened from behind the screen she told the jury: ‘It was packed in there. He sang "Two Little Boys". Everyone loved it.’



Case: The woman said Harris abused her in 1969 after singing his hit Two Little Boys to a group of children

When she got to the front of the queue to get his signature at the Portsmouth centre he said: 'hello what’s your name?', she said.



She continued: 'He was looking at me smiling and I smiled.



‘Out of nowhere I felt his hand go down my back and up through my legs.



‘It started at my lower back spine area. It stayed in the middle of my back it went right down to my bottom and then between my legs, over clothing.’



She continued: ‘It was very quick. So quick that I though what’s just happened?



‘The first time I didn’t know if it was deliberate.



‘I couldn’t process it. Something like that had never happened before.



‘I thought perhaps it was an accident.’



But she said ‘more or less instantly’ he did it again.



‘I felt scared and I went into one of those moments when you are sort of out of your body and thought I just need to get away.



The girl had not had sex education and was quite ‘sheltered’ but she said’ I understood that it was wrong.’



‘I wanted to scream out ‘what are you doing?’ but it didn’t come out.’



She added: ‘It scared me because he was looking at me all the time.



‘I sat on a chair trying to process. He carried on as if nothing had happened.



‘The memory stayed with me for ever… whenever Rolf Harris came on telly I had to switch it off.



‘Everybody loved Rolf Harris. He was a lovely, smiley bloke.’



But years later she told her husband: 'Rolf Harris is a dirty old man'.

Cross examining the witness, Sonia Woodley QC, for Harris, insisted the entertainer had never visited the community centre.



But the woman insisted she was not mistaken.



In re-examination, prosecutor Sasha Wass QC asked her what she had to gain by lying. She said: 'Nothing to gain whatsoever except for closure on the incident that happened to me.'



Harris, in a light grey checked suit, with a white shirt and yellow tie, listened impassively from the glass-walled dock as the woman gave evidence.



His wife Alwen did not attend court today, the second day in a row, apparently with a sore knee, but other family members watched from the public gallery.

Ms Woodley said if the alleged victim was indecently touched, that it was not Harris who did it.



She told the woman: 'If it happened, I am suggesting to you it was not Rolf Harris who did it.'



The witness replied: 'It was Rolf Harris.'



CHARGE SHEET: COUNTS FACED BY ROLF HARRIS IN SEX TRIAL Count 1: Indecent assault between 5/4/80 and 4/4/81 on girl aged 15

Count 2: Indecent assault between 5/4/80 and 4/4/81 on same girl, 15

Count 3: Indecent assault between 5/4/80 and 4/4/81 on same girl, 15

Count 4: Indecent assault between 5/4/80 and 4/4/81 on same girl, 15

Count 5: Indecent assault between 5/4/80 and 4/4/81 on same girl, 15

Count 6: Indecent assault between 5/4/80 and 4/4/81 on same girl, 15

Count 7: Indecent assault between 1/1/84 and 1/1/85 on same girl, then aged 19

Count 8: Indecent assault on 31/5/86 on second girl, aged 14

Count 9: Indecent assault on same girl, 14

Count 10: Indecent assault on 31/5/86 on same girl, 14

Count 11: Indecent assault between 1/1/68 and 1/1/70 on third girl, aged 7-8

Count 12: Indecent assault on fourth girl, 14, between 1/1/75 and 1/1/76

The former television presenter denies all the counts

The court heard from a man called David Thomas James, who says he visited the community centre to get autographs for his children, who were aged 10 and 12, when Harris came there after opening a shop in around 1967.



Ms Woodley put it to him that Harris had only been there to open a shop in Portsmouth in 1978, and later visited in 1983, but the witness denied this.



A second man also said he remembered Harris visiting the area in the late 1960s, as well as various other high profile figures including actor Sid James, television presenter and musician Roy Castle and politician Margaret Thatcher.

It came after evidence involving Harris' first alleged victim finished yesterday.



The court heard Rolf Harris told the furious brother of the woman he allegedly sexually assaulted from the age of 13 that ‘It takes two to tango’.

The brother rang the entertainer and threatened to beat him up over the alleged 16 years of abuse, which left his sister battling alcoholism and close to death.

The woman claims the entertainer first abused her while on a dream holiday to Hawaii and Australia with her friend Bindi, Harris' daughter, and then back home in Berkshire.



Southwark Crown Court heard how the 31-year-old broke down and confessed to her parents and siblings, saying ‘I’ve been abused all my life’ after turning up drunk to a family Sunday lunch.

Her brother told jurors that he took his sister aside and asked about her drinking. ‘That’s when she confided to me that she’d been sexually abused,’ he said.

‘I was angry, I felt guilty. Apart from the deterioration in her condition, I didn’t understand why she was behaving like that and why she was doing that to herself.’



Her brother immediately phoned Harris. ‘I asked him to not contact my sister any more and I threatened physical violence,’ he said. ‘I told him why I was angry. ‘I said “You have abused my sister”, ‘He said, “It takes two to tango”.



‘The conversation didn’t go on much after that.’



Testimony: Harris listening to the evidence with the help of a hearing device

Yesterday the parents of the alleged victim spoke of their shock and ‘disgust’ over the accusations.



They told the court they felt betrayed by a ‘trusted’ family friend who allegedly assaulted their daughter right under their noses.



Jurors were told that Harris, 84, would turn up at the teenager’s home asking to see her and disappear upstairs with her alone for up to an hour.



Her parents said they had ‘no concerns’ because his daughter Bindi had been a friend of their daughter for many years.



The mother, who was friends with Harris’s wife Alwen Hughes, 82, did not notice anything untoward at the time.



She said she was ‘completely amazed’ when her daughter made the allegations at the Sunday lunch in 1996.

Yesterday, her husband said he was devastated by his daughter’s confession. ‘I really could not believe it,’ he said.

‘I wrote him a letter expressing my disgust and saying that I didn’t want to speak to him or have anything to do with him again.’

Harris wrote back two weeks later begging forgiveness for ‘harming’ his daughter and ‘affecting’ her life. But the entertainer claimed the affair started when she was an adult.

The girl’s family told the court that they did not want to contact police at the time because she needed help to battle her alcoholism.



Doctors later warned that the woman, who allegedly started drinking gin at the age of 14 to block out the pain, that she would die if she did not stop drinking.