To his alleged victims, Rolf Harris is a dirty old man and serial abuser. But to those standing by the embattled entertainer he's warm, friendly and a 'great hugger'.

Rolf Harris has been accused of deliberately lying to the jury in his child sex trial after video emerged of him at a celebrity sporting event in Cambridge in 1978.

Police are being independently investigated after detectives botched a rape trial late last year.

Rolf Harris will continue to give evidence from the witness box next week after his child sex abuse trial was delayed by legal argument.

Rolf Harris appeared tetchy at times during his third day in the witness box which started with him acknowledging his daughter was "beside herself" over an abuse claim.

Rolf Harris has admitted in a London court that he may have sexually admired his daughter's 13-year-old friend when she joined his family on an overseas holiday.

'Don't hold it against him', said the judge of the sketches Rolf Harris had been making in court during his sex trial after concerns by jurors.

Rolf Harris has told a London court he was flattered and his heart started "thumping like mad" when an 18-year-old friend of his daughter came on to him in the 1980s.

A boy aged just 12 to 16 is being sought over indecent assaults on five women in the Papakura area of Auckland since December.

A New Zealander has told a British court Rolf Harris was a 'disgusting, vile' man who assaulted her when she was a teenager in 1970.

The Independent Police Conduct Authority is set to release its report into the botched police handling of the publicity around the Roast Busters rape investigation within the next week.

Rolf Harris groped a teenage girl at an Its a Celebrity Knockout event after she came across him crouched on all fours barking at a dog, a court heard yesterday.

A brother of Rolf Harris' main accuser says he threatened him with "physical violence" after learning of his sister's sexual assault, a court hears.

The prosecution in the Rolf Harris indecent assault trial is set to call its first witness overnight.

Entertainer Rolf Harris used his untouchable reputation to conceal a string of shocking assaults on children and young women, it was claimed at his trial.

An Auckland teacher charged with sex crimes against teenage girls has been jailed. Damian Christopher Gillard was sentenced to nine years and five months prison today.

A white supremacist couple who carried out a plan to kill a registered sex offender and his wife kissed, smiled and shouted during their sentencing in court.

An Indonesian woman who was brutally gang-raped as a punishment for having an affair with a married man could be caned in public for breaking religious laws.

Evidence in Rolf Harris' indecent assault trial will include 'events in Australia and New Zealand' the judge at his London trial has warned.

The chairman of a school board has accused victims of historic sex crimes of exploiting their abuse as an 'excuse' for difficulties in later life.

Rape crisis centres will get a boost in funding in next month's Budget, Social Development Minister Paula Bennett has announced.

ACC will pay for every cent of rape victims' counselling as part of a major overhaul of its sensitive claims system later this year.

"Horrendous" is how a judge has described Jim Wilson's 21 years of sexual offending against a female victim, starting when she was four years old.

Any register listing the names of convicted paedophiles must have iron-clad security measures to prevent details being leaked to the public, experts say.

A register tracking convicted child sex offenders could be introduced by the end of the year.