What happened to Rolf Harris and why was he released from jail?
dailystar.co.ukRolf Harris spent 60 years in the limelight before his sick crimes caught up with him.Harris was arrested in 2013 as part of the Operation Yewtree probe into historic sex offences by celebrities and those with public profiles.Following a trial a year later, he was handed a jail sentence of just shy of six years.The 92-year-old convicted paedophile was released from prison in 2017 after serving half of his term.He resides at the Berkshire home he shares with his wife of more than 60 years, Alwen Hughes.
He is reported to be gravely ill.The presenter and artist spends his days at home needing round-the-clock care, with multiple reports suggesting he is suffering from neck cancer.Harris was a household name from the 1950s onwards.Known for his song Tie Me Kangaroo Down and for fronting the TV programmes Animal Hospital and Rolf’s Cartoon Club, he was so embedded in British culture that he was invited to paint an official portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in 2005 to mark her 80th birthday.But following his arrest and during his eight-week trial at Southwark Crown Court, Harris’ dark past was unveiled.He was convicted of 12 sex attacks on girls as young as seven over a 40-year period, and was handed a jail sentence of five years and nine months.Police had begun to investigate Harris in the wake of the scandal surrounding Jimmy Saville, a children’s TV presenter who was discovered to be a predatory paedophile after his death.The cops discovered that Harris had abused his daughter's friend when she was only 13 years old.His other victims included an eight-year-old seeking an autograph and two girls in their early teens.One count, that Harris indecently assaulted an eight-year-old girl in Portsmouth, was overturned as unsafe in.
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