In 2014 – following the horrific posthumous revelations about the perversions of BBC presenter Jimmy Savile, who sexually abused more than 700 children in the 1970s and 1980s – another famous BBC presenter was also revealed to be a pedophile .

Rolf Harris – an artist and musician who presented mainly children’s TV shows and a friend of Saville’s – was sentenced to four years in prison at the time after being found guilty of sexually assaulting four girls, the youngest of whom were seven or eight years old. , from 1968 to 1986.

Harris died today at the age of 93 from cancer, the Daily Mail can reveal.

The former TV star was released from prison six years ago and has since been living in isolation with his wife in Bray while suffering from throat cancer.