On June 30, 2014, Rolf Harris was convicted of indecent assault against a young girl. The jury found that in 1969, at a community centre in Portsmouth, he had put his hands between the girl’s legs. But the jury was wrong.

Rolf Harris is a sex offender. I don’t doubt that for a second. It is right that he has spent time in jail for crimes he committed. So why does it matter if on one count he was wrongly convicted?

Well, it’s not just that you can’t go convicting people of things that they didn’t do, simply because in general they are a bad ’un. It’s that the same legal process that got it wrong on one accusation against Harris is almost certainly sending