Harris ‘targeted youngsters mesmerised by fame’

Rolf Harris targeted young fans whose "penalty" for their admiration was to suffer sexual assault at the hands of the star, a court has heard.

The veteran entertainer singled out girls who were mesmerised and beguiled by his fame and treated them as sexual objects he could touch when he felt like it, Southwark Crown Court was told.

In her closing speech to Harris’s trial for a series of indecent assaults, prosecutor Sasha Wass QC branded the artist an “arrogant and brazen” man who thought he was untouchable.