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Jimbuna 05-23-23 11:46 AM

Rolf Harris: Serial abuser and ex-entertainer dies aged 93
 
Seldom if ever good to learn of someone's passing but in this instance I'll make an exception.

GOOD RIDDANCE!

Quote:

Disgraced former entertainer Rolf Harris, who was jailed for a series of indecent assaults on girls, has died aged 93.

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.

According to his death certificate, which was registered on Tuesday, he died of neck cancer and "frailty of old age" at his home in Bray, Berkshire, on 10 May.

A statement released by his family said: "This is to confirm that Rolf Harris recently died peacefully surrounded by family and friends and has now been laid to rest.

"They ask that you respect their privacy. No further comment will be made."

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.

Before his crimes came to light, Harris had been a well-known figure in the entertainment industry in Britain and his native Australia for more than 50 years.

He arrived in London in 1952, aged 21, and went on to host a string of children's TV and variety shows as well as series about animals and art. Harris painted a portrait of the late Queen to mark her 80th birthday in 2006.

During his career he was made an OBE, MBE and CBE and awarded a Bafta fellowship, but he was stripped of the honours following his convictions.

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."

Harris served three years of his sentence at Stafford Prison in Staffordshire. After his release he returned to the home in Bray, Berkshire, he shared with his wife, Alwen - who he had married in 1958.

The couple had a daughter, Bindi.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60393842

Reece 05-24-23 04:55 AM

https://scontent-syd2-1.xx.fbcdn.net...tA&oe=64726B6D

mapuc 05-24-23 04:57 AM

There's a special chamber fore these type of people in hell.

Markus

Reece 05-24-23 05:02 AM

with central heating!! :D

Eichhörnchen 05-24-23 12:20 PM

Jake The Peg
 
"I'm Jake the Peg, diddle-iddle-iddle-um
With my extra leg, diddle-iddle-iddle-um
Wherever I go through rain and snow
The people always let me know
There's Jake the peg, diddle-iddle-iddle-um
With his extra leg, diddle-iddle-iddle-um"


Nuff said :timeout:

Jimbuna 05-24-23 01:15 PM

Here's his mate long before people realised.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxSnQ6K4guA

Jimbuna 05-25-23 05:23 AM

https://i.postimg.cc/VN9S3zwX/347231...01781442-n.jpg

Platapus 05-25-23 12:37 PM

Sounds like a good guy to fade into obscurity.


I hope his victims can recover. :(

Aktungbby 06-10-23 12:25 PM

They go in threes
 
:hmmm: funny how pedophile Jeffery Epsein, spy Robert Hannsen, and as of 10 minutes ago, Unibomber Theodore Kasczinski all died in their maximum security cells under Federal maximum security??:hmmm:...well "good riddance" indeed.

Jimbuna 06-10-23 12:31 PM

https://i.postimg.cc/T1CZZrBm/e58c17...f-so-funny.jpg

Aktungbby 06-10-23 12:47 PM

...now if Trump, Xi, and Putin would join them, we might get past MIT and Nostrodemus's projected 2040 "end of civilization" date...by another half decade or so!??:timeout::oops::dead:

Reece 06-10-23 07:38 PM

But I like Trump!! :D

Reece 06-10-23 09:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2871328)

Hey I posted that in post #2 Jim, now it's gone!! I smell a rat!! :hmmm::doh::oops:

Jimbuna 06-11-23 07:25 AM

Post #2 is completely blank so I suggest you check the site you visited....or try changing your underwear :03:

Reece 06-11-23 07:52 AM

I checked my underwear - Yuck!! :Kaleun_Sick:


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