Posted on 05/23/2023 5:13:19 AM PDT by RandFan
Disgraced former entertainer Rolf Harris, who was jailed for a series of indecent assaults on girls, has died aged 93, it has been confirmed.
Harris was found guilty of a string of indecent assaults between 1968 and 1986 following a trial in 2014 - and was jailed for five years and nine months.
He was released from prison in 2017 - but never apologised to his victims.
Before his crimes came to light, Harris had been a fixture of family entertainment in Britain.
His death was confirmed to the PA news agency by a registrar at Maidenhead Town Hall.
The cause of death is not yet known.
Following a trial at Southwark Crown Court, Harris was initially found guilty of 12 attacks on four girls, mainly in the 1970s and 1980s.
One conviction, relating to an allegation he indecently assaulted an eight-year-old girl, was later overturned. But Court of Appeal judges dismissed his application to challenge the other 11 convictions.
The victims included two girls in their early teens and a friend of his daughter.
At his sentencing, the court heard he was a "sinister pervert", who used his fame to get close to young women and girls.
"You have shown no remorse for your crimes at all," the judge told him. "Your reputation now lies in ruins, but you have no one to blame but yourself."
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Yesterday guilty of assault.
Today, could have gotten off by being a trans MMA fighter.
I hope they tan his hide, Clyde, and hang it on the shed...
He’s should be ground up and fed to the pigs for that goofy mustache.
I don’t give two buffaloes about the passing of a sinister pervert.
Altogether now!
“Sinister pervert”
As opposed to what, exactly? Maybe a “Joyful pervert?”
Let me abbos go loose,Lou...let me abbos go loose. They’re of no further use,Lou...
Had no idea, more than a one-hit wonder as a pervert.
He should have been tied down, not the kangaroo.
When I was just a wee lad myself, I bought his single of Two Little Boys. Makes me shudder to even think about that title today.
Funny how Harris was the opposite of Jonathan King. Harris was always held up as a paragon of virtue (he even did those ‘kids can say no’ advertisements back in the day, apparently at the same time he was getting all Brandony with little girls). Then you have Jonathan King, who always had a near-abysmal reputation as a “vile pervert”, and self-admitted bisexual pretty much since day one, and it turns out that proof long after the fact has surfaced that most (if not all) the peccadilloes with teenage boys that got him jailed back in the day might have actually been wrongful convictions. (For the record, I still think King is a dirty old creep, and always has been).
Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport
Two Little Boys
Jake The Peg
Looks like a constant runny nose.
In August, 1963, “Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport” ruled the juke boxes in my neck of the woods. People were singing along and even making up new lyrics, such as “wax me surfboard down, Sport.”
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