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Rolf Harris heading back to court on three new groping charges

Disgraced entertainer and serial groper Rolf Harris leaves an earlier trial that sent him to prison.

Disgraced entertainer and serial groper Rolf Harris leaves an earlier trial that sent him to prison.

Entertainer Rolf Harris is set to face a London court on four charges of groping teenage girls at public events in England between 1971 and 1983.

The 86-year-old will appear by video-link in Southwark Crown Court on Monday for a trial expected to last two weeks and involving three complainants.

Two of the indecent assault charges relate to allegations Harris groped the breast of a 16-year-old girl and ran his hand up between her thighs in the back of a taxi at a celebrity sports event in Cambridge in 1978.

Another charge is that he put his hand up the skirt of a 14-year-old girl and touched her on the vagina as she sought his autograph at a music festival in London in 1971.

The other charge is that he groped the breast of a 13-year-old girl at the BBC Television Centre in 1983 and said to her, “Do you often get molested on a Saturday morning?”

Harris has been granted the right to appear by video-link due to his age and state of health.

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