Editing Rolf Harris (section)

===Trial===
The trial of Harris began on 6 May 2014 at Southwark Crown Court.<ref>{{cite news|title=Rolf Harris trial set to start on May 6|url=http://www.maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk/News/Areas/Bray-Holyport-Fifield/Rolf-Harris-trial-to-start-on-Tuesday-April-6-24042014.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140425062059/http://www.maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk/News/Areas/Bray-Holyport-Fifield/Rolf-Harris-trial-to-start-on-Tuesday-April-6-24042014.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 April 2014|access-date=25 April 2014|work=Maidenhead Advertiser|date=24 April 2014}}</ref> Seven of the twelve charges involved allegations of a sexual relationship between Harris and one of his daughter's friends. Six charges related to when she was between the ages of 13 and 15, and one when she was 19. Harris denied that he had entered into a sexual relationship with the girl until she was 18. During the trial, a letter Harris had written to the girl's father in 1997 after the end of the relationship was shown in court, saying: "I fondly imagined that everything that had taken place had progressed from a feeling of love and friendship—there was no rape, no physical forcing, brutality or beating that took place."<ref name="charges">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27907511|title=Rolf Harris: The charges against him|work=[[BBC News]] |date=30 June 2014|access-date=6 July 2014}}</ref>

Three charges related to the assault of a 15-year-old Australian girl visiting the UK in 1986.<ref name="charges"/> One charge was that he sexually assaulted an eight-year-old girl who asked for his autograph at a community centre in Hampshire in 1968 or 1969. When questioned by police about this allegation, Harris replied "I would simply never touch a child inappropriately."<ref name="charges"/> Harris was also accused of groping the bottom of a 14-year-old girl at a celebrity ''[[It's a Knockout]]'' event in [[Cambridge]] in 1975.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/may/23/rolf-harris-trial-scene-alleged-assaults|title='No evidence' Rolf Harris was at scene of alleged assaults|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=23 May 2014|access-date=7 July 2014}}</ref> He denied that he had visited Cambridge until four years before the trial, but television archive material was produced in court showing that he had taken part in an episode of the [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] show ''Star Games'', which had been filmed in Cambridge in 1978. Harris denied that he had told a deliberate lie and said that his failure to remember the show was "a lapse of memory."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/02/rolf-harris-trial-game-show-footage-defence-cambridge|title=Rolf Harris trial: gameshow footage emerges undermining defence|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=2 June 2014|access-date=7 July 2014}}</ref> Additional witnesses who claimed to have been assaulted in Malta, New Zealand, and Australia were called to testify against Harris, although these charges could not be pursued in the British courts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/world/rolf-harris-guilty-the-victims-of-the-12-counts-of-indecent-assault-20140701-zsrip.html|title=Rolf Harris guilty: The victims of the 12 counts of indecent assault|work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]|date=1 June 2014|access-date=7 July 2014}}</ref>