When longtime celebrity and artist Rolf Harris was found guilty in 2014 of twelve counts of non-recent sexual assault, many felt the verdicts were deeply flawed. Especially as he had conducted an adult relationship over a decade with one complainant, who had then brought seven of the charges.
And, there was no record of Rolf ever having been at the location of one alleged assault on a seven-year old girl whom he had never even met!
For his second and 3rd trials, Rolf’s family hired a private firm headed by William Merritt to fully investigate the seven new allegations, and the information they gathered enabled Rolf’s final acquittal. (Barely noted by mainstream media pawns of the 'False Allegations Industry', 'Me Too Compensation Culture' and powered by corrupt careers police with their Crown Prosecution populist puppet-masters).
Merritt’s team also achieved the overturning of the non-recent charge involving a seven-year old from the 1st trial, on the grounds that Rolf had never visited the community centre where the alleged assault had supposedly occurred, or had even met the complainant; still not prosecuted for her false allegations wasting police time.
Vital details which corrupt police failed to find for themselves, and more importantly for their paymasters the British public!
In his book Merritt describes the work of his team finding the facts which the false-complainants and corrupt police criminally tried to conceal, and also raises serious points regarding the still-extant verdicts against Rolf from the first trial.
Merritt shows that vastly expensive 'Operation Yewtree' overall did not conduct thorough and unbiased investigations of complainants’ stories in most if not all cases and instead focused on anything which might incriminate defendants including Rolf Harris while dismissing much testimony which could, and finally did, acquit him.
Merritt also examines the (most likely monetary) motives of people who act as 'witnesses', and gives a powerful case for the use of private investigators by a defence team to obtain vital information that might otherwise remain hidden by those paid by the public to reveal!
This book should be read by all concerned for true victims grossly neglected by unjust witch hunts against Rolf Harris and far too many similar retrospective UK cases in the past 40 years. Since the 1980s fake Satanic panics prompted corrupt police proactive trawling; plus, the proper administration of the failing UK justice system in general.
www.bbc.com/news/uk-34801011