By Nick Pisa, Sky News Reporter, at Southwark Crown Court
Entertainer Rolf Harris has deliberately lied in his sex trial, jurors have been told, after new video evidence was shown to the court.
Harris, 84, said last week he had never been to Cambridge - where an alleged incident assault took place - until four years ago for an exhibition of his paintings.
But evidence was shown to the court which showed him being in the university city in 1978, taking part in a programme called Star Games.
The trial has heard the alleged victim was around 14 when she claimed Harris touched her bottom when he took part in an It's a Knockout style event held in Cambridge.
In the footage seen by jurors Harris was described as being the captain of the theatre team as it took part in the game show, with prosecutor Sasha Wass QC saying he "was jumping up and down like a kangaroo".
Harris arrives at Southwark Crown Court His teammates included Dr Who star Colin Baker, actress Rula Lenska and seventies comedian Robin Askwith.
Ms Wass added the video "supported everything the witness had said... apart from the year - she got that wrong".
Ms Wass added: "You told the jury last week with such confidence that you had never been to Cambridge until four years ago. That was a deliberate lie."
Harris replied: "No, it wasn't. I didn't find out it was Cambridge until I saw the video.
"None of the performers knew they were in Cambridge."
The video began with aerial shots of Cambridge and was introduced by Michael Aspel welcoming viewers to he city.
After it was screened, Ms Wass said:"You didn't know you were in Cambridge? Michael Aspel knew."
Harris said: "We all went on a coach and were deposited on a green with changing rooms."
Ms Wass continued: "You deliberately lied to mislead the jury."
Harris said: "I'd forgotten the event."
Ms Wass said: "It was a deliberate lie."
Harris said: "No, a lapse of memory."
He again insisted that all of the women who have given evidence against him had lied.
Ms Wass said: "The footage proved that it was not these victims who have lied, it is you that have lied and you hoped to get away with that lie, when it came to it."
Harris again added that he had not lied when he gave his evidence but had "no recollection of the event".
At one point the judge rebuked Harris after he threw a question back at the prosecution, telling him: "This is not a verbal joust."
Harris denies 12 counts of indecent assault on four women aged between seven and eight years old and 19 between 1968 and 1986.
The trial continues.
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