TV tonight: Sid Owen, Peter Hitchens and other celebs get Banged Up
The decommissioned HMP Shrewsbury is re-opened as a virtual ‘prison theme park’ in this bizarre new series. Plus: a very spooky Bake Off. Here’s what to watch this evening
May 2023
Rolf Harris, convicted sex offender and entertainer, dies aged 93
Artist, musician and TV personality, who was jailed for sexual assaults against girls and young women, died on 10 May
Rolf Harris obituary
Television entertainer whose long and versatile career was followed by imprisonment for indecent assault
From children’s entertainer to convicted criminal: the downfall of Rolf Harris
TV review
Rolf Harris: Hiding in Plain Sight review – the awful truth behind the abuse that shocked a nation
‘He assaulted me in 1977 but I remember it like yesterday’: why blind, disabled Lin Berwick denounced Rolf Harris
October 2022
Channel 4 buys painting by Hitler – and may let Jimmy Carr destroy it
Ian Katz says new show celebrates the channel’s tradition of ‘iconoclasm and irreverence’
July 2020
Women’s fears as rape prosecutions stay at 10-year low
Figures set to prompt scrutiny of alleged Crown Prosecution Service policy on ‘weak’ cases
November 2017
Rolf Harris has one indecent assault conviction overturned
Appeal court judges rule that one of former entertainer’s 12 convictions was unsafe, but will not seek retrial
January 2017
Rolf Harris trial: woman tells of relief at making assault complaint
Woman accuses entertainer of groping her at a music festival in London in 1971 when she was 14
October 2016
Cliff Richard says he is 'forever tainted' by abuse allegations
Singer, 76, tells House of Lords event that he will never regain the respect and confidence he had before being wrongly accused
September 2016
Eddie McGuire and Andrew Bolt among Ernies winners for most sexist remarks
Overall Gold Ernie award jointly won by the Melbourne barrister Ben Mallick and the NSW Department of Education
July 2016
How dishonourable do you have to be to be stripped of an honour?
As the Cabinet Office reviews Philip Green’s knighthood, we look at former honourables who have had titles revoked
January 2016
Rolf Harris jail album includes song Can’t Keep that Dingo Down – reports
85-year-old reportedly plans to release album called Justice For All featuring songs he has penned in prison, where he is serving time for indecent assaults on young girls
November 2015
Rolf Harris taken to hospital 'after chocolate overdose'
Disgraced entertainer, 85, feared to have fallen ill after gorging on chocolate and sweets in jail
October 2015
Don’t let ‘ordinary’ child sexual abuse fall back into the shadows
Peter Wanless
Focus on celebrity cases must not detract from advances in tackling child sexual abuse – and in persuading victims that, if they speak up, they will be heard
June 2015
Rolf Harris calls victims 'slimy woodworm' in song penned in prison
Disgraced entertainer, who is serving more than five years for sex abuse crimes against minors, believes women came after his money, say reports
May 2015
Rolf Harris: fresh evidence handed to prosecutors by Operation Yewtree
Crown Prosecution Service receives file after police interviewed the jailed entertainer in February, with a decision yet to be made on charges
March 2015
Rolf Harris is stripped of CBE
Harris, 84, who was jailed for nearly six years for sex attacks on girls as young as seven, loses honour awarded in 2006
February 2015
Rolf Harris erased from painting of Australian showbiz greats
Disgraced entertainer replaced by TV and theatre personality Stuart Wagstaff in ‘Entertainers of the Century’ painting in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Market
