Oh really? Isn't everyone? Are we (and jurors) really expected to think the Prosecutor or, indeed, the Judge, doesn't have a "dark side" if a "dark side" is having an extra marital affair and choosing to hide it? I do hope the defence barrister makes this point with suitably investigated research possibly naming names of hidden "dark" behaviour. Certain relationships in LIverpool not keen to mention? Some behaviour in Wimbledon whilst a teenager? Oh Sasha, you norty gal. Wot a "dark side". So well concealed beneath that grubby wig.

JK2006 wrote:
Oh really? Isn't everyone? Are we (and jurors) really expected to think the Prosecutor or, indeed, the Judge, doesn't have a "dark side" if a "dark side" is having an extra marital affair and choosing to hide it? I do hope the defence barrister makes this point with suitably investigated research possibly naming names of hidden "dark" behaviour. Certain relationships in LIverpool not keen to mention? Some behaviour in Wimbledon whilst a teenager? Oh Sasha, you norty gal. Wot a "dark side". So well concealed beneath that grubby wig.


Having an affair with your daughter's friend/your friend's daughter, who you have known as a child is darker than most people manage.

I wouldn't agree Honey; I'd say that when the teenager matured into a sexually active and aware young woman who expressed interest in her friend's father, such an affair was reasonably natural to develop if the attraction was then mutual. Most affairs tend to be with people known over time - partners of a friend for example, a friend's wife or husband...

JK2006 wrote:
I wouldn't agree Honey; I'd say that when the teenager matured into a sexually active and aware young woman who expressed interest in her friend's father, such an affair was reasonably natural to develop if the attraction was then mutual. Most affairs tend to be with people known over time - partners of a friend for example, a friend's wife or husband...

I don't think it is common to have affairs with a friend's spouse is it? I don't know anyone who has done this. Don't most people look on friends/friends partners/children we have looked after in a brotherly/fatherly way?

Even so, it might be revolting, but it isn't illegal.

I'd agree with you Honey, but the fact is that this is often the way affairs begin. Whether or not it is a "dark side" is a moral question (each to their own morality) but it is quite common and not, as you say, illegal.

complete hogwash being promoted- if Rolf is being truthful and he had an affair with a family friend after age 18( I tend to believe him as this affair by the complainants own claim went until she was 30).

It is rubbish to say it's 'abnormal' and it is a common and everyday event. It is how the majority of people meet- they rarely move outside their close social circle.

What frigging "dark side " are they talking about?

was there some contract with the public that Rolf Harris was celibate or was not having outside of marriage affairs?

whose business is it what Harris did in his private life?

Britain's tabloids trade on this happening, they promote it, they revel in it as do their readers must while tut tutting at the same time.

How dare a prosecutor make statements which reflect their own narrow 'moral' view- to do so means everyone in the court should have the same done- the jury, the judge and so on.

Indeed if that was the tac they were taking, every jury member should have been examined as to extra marital affairs.

God the British can be so vile and hypocritically prudish at times.