Rolf Harris home after being released from prison

Entertainer Rolf Harris has returned home after being released from prison on bail.

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A file photo dated 08 May 2014 shows Australian entertainer Rolf Harris arrive at Southwark Crown Court in London, Britain. Source: EPA

Rolf Harris has arrived back at his home west of London after being released from prison as he faces trial on indecent assault charges.

Harris was serving time after he was sentenced on previous convictions in 2014.

The 87-year-old entertainer arrived at his riverside home in a blue car at around 9am on Friday after leaving Stafford Prison.

A man in a balaclava fended off media photographers and cameramen in the driveway as Harris climbed out of the back seat and moved slowly into the house shielded by another man.

He has been appearing by video link from prison.

Judge Deborah Taylor told the jury of seven women and five men on Thursday that Harris would be released from Stafford on Friday after she approved an application for bail on the current charges.

The application was not opposed by the prosecution.

"He will be attending what remains of this trial in person from Monday next week," the judge said.

Harris is before a jury at Southwark Crown Court on four indecent assault charges involving three women when they were teenagers in 1971, 1978 and 1983.

Harris denies the charges.


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