Entertainer to appear in court in March over alleged offences relating to seven girls and women aged between 12 and 27

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The disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris has been charged in relation to new allegations of indecent assault against seven victims.



Harris, who is serving five and a half years in prison for a string of sex attacks on girls as young as seven, will be brought before magistrates next month. He is charged with seven further offences of indecent assault against seven young girls and women aged between 12 and 27 between 1971 and 2004.

The charges come as a result of further information investigated by Operation Yewtree, the Met police inquiry into Jimmy Savile and other high-profile individuals suspected of child sex abuse.

A CPS spokesperson said: “We have carefully considered the evidence gathered by the Metropolitan police service as part of Operation Yewtree in relation to Rolf Harris.

“Having completed our review in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors, we have concluded that there is sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest for Mr Harris to be charged with seven counts of indecent assault. The alleged offences date from 1971 to 2004 and relate to seven complainants aged between 12 and 27 at the time of the alleged offending.”

Harris will appear at Westminster magistrates court on 17 March.

Harris was convicted in 2014 of 12 counts of indecent assault against four girls, the youngest of whom was eight years old at the time of the assault.

He is charged in relation to the new alleged offences with seven counts of indecent assault on a woman contrary to section 14 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 and an alternate charge of sexual assault contrary to section three of the Sexual Offences Act 2003.



The Metropolitan police said Harris had been charged on Friday with:

• Indecent assault on a girl under the age of 14 years between 10 and 11 July 1971.

• Indecent assault on a girl under the age of 14 years between 1 January 1977 and 31 December 1977.

• Indecent assault on a woman aged 16 years or over on 17 September 1977.

• Indecent assault on a woman aged 16 years or over between 1 June 1978 and 31 July 1978.

• Indecent assault on a girl under the age of 14 years on 31 December 1983.

• Indecent assault on a woman aged 16 years or over between 1 January 2002 and 31 December 2002.

• Indecent assault on a woman aged 16 years or over between 27 April 2004 and 30 April 2004.