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 girl at the centre of the Roast Busters scandal has had a "terrible" time since she went to the police and those close to her are worried she will give up her fight for justice.

A report looking at whether police gave the wrong information to the public over the Roastbusters case has found a systemic breakdown in communication.

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.

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.

A teacher charged with sex crimes against teenage girls has been jailed for more than nine years - and his former boss says prison is "where he deserves to be".

Rolf Harris used his fame as a children's entertainer to approach young girls and then abuse them over a number of decades, a London court has been told.

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.

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.

Harrowing details of the abuse carried out on young boys by a former teacher at a London private school were revealed yesterday.

A law change to ensure paedophiles convicted of the most serious crimes are not released back on to the streets without monitoring could rely on a future Labour government.

A case which could have come from the pages of Fifty Shades of Grey will go to the Court of Appeal next month after a judge stopped it midway through trial.

Convicted sex offender Stewart Murray Wilson has been denied parole, with the Parole Board noting concerns over his release proposal.

A 28-year-old chef has appeared in court over an attack on woman in a central Auckland cemetery.

A transgender woman convicted of indecency and sex attacks on boys was to be deported - but has been given a chance to stay in NZ to complete her transformation.

John was first referred to sexual violence services aged 12. His mother was schizophrenic and his father, a gang member with a violent history, was in prison.