TIMELINE OF ROLF HARRIS SEXUAL ASSAULT CASES:
2012
Nov 29 - Harris interviewed by officers from Operation Yewtree five days after his Berkshire property was searched.
2013
March 28 - Arrested and quizzed by Met Police detectives but not charged.
April 19 - Harris named for the first time by London's Sun newspaper as the Australian entertainer previously arrested.
April 27 - Harris dumped as the face of British Paints.
May 2 - British police interview witnesses in Australia.
Aug 5 - Re-arrested and bailed again following "further allegations" of historical sex abuse.
Aug 8 - Replaced as host of British TV show Animal Clinic.
Aug 29 - Harris is charged with nine counts of indecently assaulting two girls aged 14 and 15 in the 1980s and four counts of making indecent photographs of a child in 2012.
Sept 23 - Appears in court, his lawyer says he will plead "not guilty".
Dec 22 - Prosecutors reveal Harris is to face three additional indecent assault charges involving two new alleged victims one aged "seven or eight" and dating back to 1968.
2014
Jan 14 - In court Harris delivers a loud and clear "not guilty" to each of the 12 indecent assault charges. He is not arraigned on the four indecent images charges.
May 6 - Trial begins at Southwark Crown Court.
June 30 - Harris convicted of 12 indecent assaults.
July 5 - Harris jailed for five years and nine months for the sex abuse, which means he will serve just under three years.
Sept - UK Attorney-General's Office confirms the sentence would not be referred to the Court of Appeal for being unduly lenient.
Dec 12 - Harris abandons appeal of his convictions.
2015
Feb 5 - Officers from Operation Yewtree interview Harris in jail over more allegations of sexual offences.
Feb 23 - Australia's Governor-General Peter Cosgrove strips Harris of his Order of Australia honours.
March - Harris stripped of his CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) awarded by the Queen in 2006.
2016
Feb 12 - The Crown Prosecution Service announces that Harris will face a further seven indecency charges.
March 17 - Harris pleads not guilty to all the charges in Westminster Magistrates Court.
Dec 15 - In what is believed to be a UK legal first, Harris is granted leave by Judge Alistair McCreath to appear at his upcoming trial by video-link from Stafford Prison.
2017
Jan 9 - Harris's second trial begins in Southwark Crown Court on seven charges of indecent assault and one alternative charge of sexual assault.
Feb 8 - Harris is found not guilty of three groping charges but the jury fails to reach majority verdicts on four other counts and is discharged. Judge McCreath sets a hearing date of February 15 to determine if a retrial should be held on the outstanding counts.
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