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		</div><p>Disgraced children’s entertainer Rolf Harris has appeared in court accused of seven more sex attacks – including an assault on a disabled woman.</p>
<p>He is also alleged to have molested a girl under the age of 14 at the BBC Television Centre in Wood Lane in west London over the Christmas period in 1983.</p>
<p>And 21 years later Harris is said to have struck again at Television Centre, indecently assaulting a woman there in 2004.</p>
<p>The Australian-born artist, 85, is already serving a six-year sentence at Stafford Prison for sex offences against four girls, one aged just seven or eight.<br />
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<p>He appeared via videolink at London’s Westminster Magistrates Court charged with seven more sex attacks on girls and women spanning four decades and dating back to the early 1970s.</p>
<p>Asked to introduce himself, he said: “My name is Rolf Harris – R-O-L-F Harris.”</p>
<p>He is said to have molested girls at the Lyceum Theatre in Covent Garden, outside Radio Victory, an independent station in Portsmouth, and in Jesus Green, a park overlooking the river in Cambridge.<br />
He indicated a not guilty plea to all the charges.</p>
<p>His barrister Stephen Vullo QC requested that the full details of the charges Harris faced were not read out in court in front of the “media circus”.</p>
<p>But this was firmly rejected by District Judge Quentin Purdy who pointed out it is a public hearing and the charges should be put in full.</p>
<p>Wearing a grey suit, white shirt and the same bright, colourful striped tie he wore when he was sentenced last time, Harris rested his hand on a paper cup of water as he sat at a desk in the prison room.</p>
<p>The elderly artist spoke to say “Good afternoon” to the district judge and gave his address as “HMP Stafford”.<br />
He said he struggled to hear the court proceedings and lawyers were repeatedly asked to speak up.</p>
<p>The grey-haired prisoner appeared relaxed as he sat with his hands clasped throughout the hearing.</p>
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<p>He answered “not guilty” as the charges were put to him one by one.</p>
<p>The public gallery was packed with reporters from Britain, Australia and New Zealand.</p>
<p>Delivering a statement on the court steps on behalf of Harris’s family, solicitor Daniel Berke said: “We are disappointed and saddened that the CPS have decided to take Rolf, who will be 86 years old at the end of March, on another trial.</p>
<p>“Nevertheless he has, as he has always done, co-operated with the authorities.<br />
“We, for our part, will do all we can as a family to assist him in proving his innocence.”<br />
District Judge Purdy sent the case to London’s Southwark Crown Court where Harris will appear on April 14.</p>
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