By
Australian Associated Press
The jury in Rolf Harris's child sex
abuse trial didn't get to hear from a further nine women who claim the
entertainer harassed them, including one alleged victim who says she was
groped on live TV.
Another
potential witness claims she was working as a barmaid at a party for the
broadcaster Michael Parkinson when Harris kissed her in front of his
wife Alwen.
The prosecution
wanted to call seven of the women as bad character witnesses alongside
six others who did give evidence during the eight-week trial in London.
But most were ruled inadmissible during legal argument at Southwark Crown Court.
Justice
Nigel Sweeney didn't allow jurors to see footage of one English TV
presenter who claimed Harris put his hand up her skirt while she was
interviewing him live on air in the mid-1990s.
During
pre-trial legal argument, prosecutor Sasha Wass QC said watching the
footage it was clear from the woman's reaction what was going on just
out of shot.
In 2005, another woman was working as a barmaid at Berkshire pub where a party was being held for Parkinson.
Harris, in front of his wife, allegedly grabbed the young woman as she was clearing up and started kissing her.
A decade earlier, in the mid-1990s, the star attended a fete at Bray where he's lived since the early 1980s.
He
was allegedly in a tent signing autographs when he told a 13 or
14-year-old girl he liked her jumper and wanted to see what was under
it.
In 1991, another
potential bad character witness met Harris during an art class in
Belfast when she asked if she could interview him for the BBC.
With children and a camera crew watching the artist allegedly pressed himself against her and stuck his tongue into her mouth.
"She
felt disgusted and dirty and described him as opportunistic and
predatory," Ms Wass told the court during pre-trial legal argument.
In 2001, a 20-year-old woman who looked younger than that allegedly met Harris at an art competition at Kensington Olympia.
The celebrity pinched her bottom as they posed for a photograph, the court but not the jury heard.
She
looked at him angrily, but he simply shrugged. A 24-year-old with
psychological problems was allegedly abused in 1999 when she met Harris
while on holiday with friends.
"In
the villa he was staying in he came upon her in the garden, put his
hand inside her skirt and touched her buttocks," Ms Wass said.
"On another occasion he came to where she was staying, went into her room while she was having a nap and got into bed with her."
The court heard he digitally penetrated her, performed oral sex on her and got her to do the same to him.
Finally, a woman says she met the Australian at a motel near Sydney in 1977.
She was 14 and Harris was visiting with fellow celebrity Harry Butler.
The alleged victim says the man who gave the world the wobble board touched her bottom and declared: "Rolfie deserves a cuddle."
He subsequently followed her to a lift where he held her and touched her breast before she managed to escape.
The jurors further weren't aware that during the trial two Australian DJs went public with allegations against Harris.
Former
Perth radio host Jane Marwick claims the celebrity grabbed her breast
in 2001 while posing for a photo after an interview.
At
the time Ms Marwick thought it was "inappropriate behaviour by a grubby
old man" but said if she'd known Harris allegedly abused people "of
very tender years" she would have taken action.
Former ABC radio host Verity James also alleged Harris groped her in the late 1990s or early 2000s.
"He
kind of pushes you up against a wall in a big hug, grabbing at the
buttocks and rubbing on your breasts," Ms James said in late May.
Harris
on Monday was found guilty of indecently assaulting four women in the
UK between 1968 and 1986. He was convicted on all 12 counts.
Another
six witnesses gave supporting evidence during the trial that they were
harassed in Australia, New Zealand and Malta between 1969 and 1991.
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