Shamed TV star Harris writes song about victims

LONDON: Disgraced veteran entertainer Rolf Harris, convicted for a string of sex assaults against girls, is writing a song about money-grabbing accusers, a British newspaper said Sunday.
Harris, 85, a household name for decades in Britain and his native Australia, said his song was driven by “inner rage” about the “injustice of it all.”
The television star, artist and songwriter was jailed for five years and nine months in July last year.
He was found guilty of indecently assaulting four victims between 1969 and 1986, including the childhood best friend of his daughter Bindi.
The letter, which appeared in The Mail on Sunday newspaper, was reportedly written in February to a friend who was “so appalled at its contents” that he passed it to the weekly tabloid.
“At last after eight months inside, the inner rage has come to the fore. I’ve started writing a song about the injustice of it all,” the letter said.
“I plan to record this the moment I get out toward the end of 2017,” he wrote, envisaging a “country rock sound with a heavy backbeat.”
It begins: “Climb up out of the woodwork babe, from 40 years ago,
“The climate’s great in Britain now, for making loads of dough,
“You’ve festered down there long enough, time’s right to grab your chance,
Lawyer Liz Dux, who represented Harris’s victims, said they would be “distraught” at the song, which showed he should be denied parole and be “made to serve his full sentence” in prison.
According to The Mail on Sunday, one of his victims said: “I am totally revolted by what he has written.