DISGRACED entertainer Rolf Harris has been cleared of three sex offences today with the jury failing to reach a verdict on a further four allegations.
The jury took just under a week to find the 86-year-old Australian not guilty of three of seven alleged assaults said to have taken place over four decades following a second trial at London's Southwark Crown Court.
Harris stood accused of assaulting females as young as 12 during or after public appearances between 1971 and 2004.
He is already in jail following a 2014 trial which saw him convicted of 12 sex offences against four female victims, one aged as young as seven or eight.
But his defence team claimed the jury in the first trial had "got it wrong" and that the media frenzy had "without doubt made him vulnerable to people making accusations against him".
The pensioner declined to give evidence at his second trial and instead watched proceedings first via video link from Stafford prison and later from the dock with a hearing loop.
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Harris, wearing a pale blue shirt, suit and patterned tie, showed no reaction as the not guilty verdicts were read out by the jury forewoman.
The entertainer has previously claimed his victims are after his £11million fortune.
Judge Alistair McCreath discharged the jury from deliberating on the further four counts Harris is accused of.
The prosecution team asked for one week to decide if they will apply for a retrial.
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