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April 21st, 2013 
Rolf Harris and wife Alwen Hughes, seen here at a reception for the Centenary of Australian Diplomatic Representation in London in 2010. Picture: AFP PHOTO/Carl de Souza/POOL
Source: AFP
ROLF Harris’s wife has spoken about her husband’s distress and devastation at being placed under suspicion by police for sexual offences.
Alwen Hughes, Harris’ partner for 50 years, has reportedly told friends of sleepless nights for both of them since Harris was first interviewed by police from Operation Yewtree last November and had his computer seized and was then formally arrested and bailed last month for undisclosed “suspicion of sexual offences”.
No charges have been laid.
“My poor husband, it’s terrible we’ve been really worrying about it,” the Sunday Mirror has reported, quoting what a friend of Ms Hughes, a Welsh born artist, has said.
“He’s really suffering. We’ve both been having sleepless nights over it all.”
Harris has been nowhere to be seen at his river-front home in Berkshire west of London for a number of weeks but a number of friends of the couple visited Ms Hughes at the property in the village of Bray yesterday.
She has declined to comment publicly about the matter and has been sick for a number of weeks; last November at a function at Australia’s High Commission in London Harris broke from a press conference and rushed to hold her up after she began to feel faint. The couple made light of it after but neighbours of the couple on Saturday revealed she had been quite sick for sometime.
Meanwhile the British press has lashed out at Harris’ lawyers, high profile London firm Harbottle & Lewis which also represents the Royal Family, for allegedly sending a series of threatening emails warning about publishing their clients’ name.
The firm cited the Leveson Inquiry, which looked at the operations of the media in the wake of the phone hacking scandal, and among other high profile cases to block publication.
“We note that you state are intending to do what no other organisation in this country has done and publish that our client has been arrested on very serious charges,” the law firm’s senior media lawyer Gerrard Tyrrell wrote to the Mail on Sunday.
“The highly damaging personal and legal consequences of doing so will not be lost on you.”
He then warned it would be wrong for the correspondence from the firm to be published.
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