By Nick Pisa, Sky News Reporter
A woman who says she was assaulted by Rolf Harris when she was 13 was "shocked and upset" after he groped her, a court has heard.
The 49-year-old - a childhood friend of the entertainer's daughter Bindi - gave evidence about attacks she says took place while she was on holiday with the Harris family in 1978.
She said she could remember that an alleged assault happened at "four-ish" in the afternoon because she had been sunbathing and then gone for a shower.
She told the court that after Harris assaulted her as she got out of the shower she thought: "My God, did that just happen?"
Under cross-examination, the woman told the court she did not record the alleged attacks in her diary.
She said: "If someone saw my diary I wouldn't want them to think I'd had an awful time."
The witness was asked by defence counsel Sonia Woodley QC why she had gone on holiday with Harris if she was so ''scared'' of him, as she has previously said.
She told the jury at Southwark Crown Court: ''I wanted to be with Bindi and I knew he wouldn't be around all the time.''
When pressed about the alleged shower assault, the witness said she had ''no recollection'' of how Harris got into the bedroom and where he had been previously.
Ms Woodley also questioned her about a time where she says Harris groped her on a beach within view of his wife Alwen and Bindi.
She asked the witness: ''You must have been shocked and upset ?''
She replied that she was and was then asked how Alwen and Bindi could not have noticed.
The woman replied: ''Because I didn't want to show it.''
Earlier in her cross examination the witness denied defence suggestions that in more than six hours of police interviews and statements, she had plenty of time ''to rehearse'' what she was going to say.
She also denied Ms Woodley's claims that she was ''strong minded, wilful and argumentative'' although she agreed that as a child she had gone through a phase of eating ''just marmite on toast'.'
Harris, dressed in a silver grey suit, shirt and tie listened to proceedings via a hearing loop and his wife Alwen was also in court along with other family and friends.
The TV presenter and artist denies 12 counts of indecently assaulting her and three other girls from 1968 to 1986.
More follows...
Anda sedang membaca artikel tentang
Rolf Harris 'Victim Shocked By Beach Assault'
Dengan url
http://cobaagains.blogspot.com/2014/05/rolf-harris-victim-shocked-by-beach.html
Anda boleh menyebar luaskannya atau mengcopy paste-nya
Rolf Harris 'Victim Shocked By Beach Assault'
namun jangan lupa untuk meletakkan link
Rolf Harris 'Victim Shocked By Beach Assault'
sebagai sumbernya
0 komentar:
Posting Komentar