Harris seeks leave to appeal sentence

Set to appeal ... disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris. Source: Supplied

REPORTS are emerging that disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris will seek leave to appeal his conviction for indecent assault.

The disgraced entertainer was convicted of 12 indecent assaults on a string of underage women, and sentenced to five years and nine months.

But The Sun is reporting confirmation from the Judicial Office in the UK that lawyers for the 84-year-old had lodged an appeal notice this week.

Earlier this week, UK Attorney General Jeremy Wright stated that he would not be seeking to appeal the length of Harris's sentence, despite receiving 150 submissions from the public complaining that it was too lenient.

Wright acknowledged that the ruling would cause disappointment, but said the courts were bound by the maximum sentence in force at the time of the offences.

Victims of Rolf Harris reacted with fury

Journalist Letitia Fitzpatrick, who waived her anonymity to tell how Harris also assaulted her, said she was 'bitterly disappointed', adding: "He has shown no remorse … [the sentence] is a betrayal of those victims."

Trial judge Nigel Sweeney made some of the sentences on the 12 counts consecutive to make up the total term, of which Harris will serve around half, but also had to take into account the entertainer's age.

The television star, artist and songwriter was found guilty of indecently assaulting four victims between 1969 and 1986, including the childhood best friend of his daughter Bindi.

"You have shown no remorse for your crimes at all," Sweeney told Harris as he handed down his sentence earlier in July.

"Your reputation lies in ruins, you have been stripped of your honours, but you have no one to blame but yourself."

Harris was the second person to be convicted under a wide-ranging police investigation set up in the wake of revelations that the late Jimmy Savile, a fellow major BBC star, was a prolific abuser.

Scotland Yard is considering further allegations against Harris.

Seven of the 12 counts against Harris related to the friend of Bindi, including one incident when she was 15 where he seriously sexually assaulted her while his daughter slept in the adjacent bed.

The entertainer's conviction caused widespread revulsion in Britain, where his television programs were watched by millions of children, and his homeland of Australia.

He was made a CBE in 2006 — one step below a knighthood — and even painted Queen Elizabeth II's portrait to mark her 80th birthday.

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