{"id":153660,"date":"2014-08-02T01:06:14","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T01:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2014\/08\/02\/entertainer-rolf-harris-launches-uk-appeal-bid\/"},"modified":"2014-08-02T01:06:14","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T01:06:14","slug":"entertainer-rolf-harris-launches-uk-appeal-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2014\/08\/02\/entertainer-rolf-harris-launches-uk-appeal-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Entertainer Rolf Harris launches UK appeal bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/>Jailed children\u2019s entertainer Rolf Harris has applied for permission to appeal against his convictions for a string of sex offences in Britain, judicial officials said on Friday (August 1). The 84-year-old Australian-born Harris was found guilty on June 30 of 12 indecent assaults against four girls, including an eight-year-old autograph hunter and a close friend of his daughter. <br \/>\nHarris, who had been a fixture on British television for decades, was jailed for five years and nine months for the offences, which took place between 1968 and 1986. A spokesman for the Judicial Office confirmed that Harris\u2019 lawyers had lodged a request with the Court of Appeal this week for permission to lodge an appeal. A judge will now decide whether the artist and television star will be allowed to make a full challenge against his convictions. The move to challenge the convictions comes days after a decision to uphold Harris\u2019 jail sentence, despite criticism that it was too lenient. Attorney General Jeremy Wright, the government\u2019s chief legal advisor, received 150 complaints asking for a review, but announced on Wednesday that the jail term would not be challenged.<br \/>\nThe guilty verdicts caused widespread revulsion in Britain, where Harris was beloved to generations of children as a family-friendly popular entertainer, and in his homeland of Australia.<br \/>\nThe disgraced artist was made a CBE in 2006 &#8211; one step below a knighthood &#8211; and even painted a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II to celebrate the monarch\u2019s 80th birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jailed children\u2019s entertainer Rolf Harris has applied for permission to appeal against his convictions for a string of sex offences in Britain, judicial officials said on Friday (August 1). The 84-year-old Australian-born Harris was found guilty on June 30 of 12 indecent assaults against four girls, including an eight-year-old autograph hunter and a close friend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}