‘You suckers! He’s groomed world’

This is a clip from Channel Seven's documentary titled, Rolf Harris 'Dark Star' which details the rise and fall of Rolf Harris. Courtesy: Seven News.

Rolf Harris' career has ended in disgrace after he was convicted of twelve accounts of indecent assault.

Veteran entertainer Rolf Harris holds the hand of his daughter Bindi, accompanied by other family members, as they leave Southwark Crown Court in London, Monday, June 30, 2014. Source: AP

SEVEN women gave evidence as witnesses of groping incidents involving Rolf Harris during his sex abuse trial. But there is one victim who has never spoken publicly of her ordeal, until now.

In a one-hour special, Rolf Harris: Dark Star, which aired Tuesday night on Seven News, Melissa Doyle, together with Europe correspondent Hugh Whitfeld detailed the rise and fall of Harris — from national treasure to international disgrace.

Australian woman Nina Bekker claims she was attacked by Harris at age 14 during a chance encounter in the late 1970s.

"Rolf Harris hasn't just groomed his victims. He has groomed their families and he has groomed the whole community by creating a character who's innocent. An affable gentleman," Bekker, now 50, tells Seven reporter David Richardson.

"That's what happens. Rolf Harris has become a master of impressions."

Richardson asked Ms Bekker: "So he's groomed the world?"

Bekker responded: "Absolutely. Yep. You suckers! That's what he's done. He's groomed the world."

Ms Bekker's exclusive interview with Seven comes as the veteran entertainer was yesterday found guilty of sexually assaulting four teenage school girls over an almost 20-year period with a jury unanimously declaring him guilty on all charges.

Nina Bekker told Seven that she was assaulted by Harris in the late 1970s. Picture: Seven Source: Supplied

Ms Bekker recounted the alleged assault in terrifying detail, saying she was staying with her family at the Glenview Motel on Sydney's north shore when Harris entered the dining room with In The Wild presenter Harry Butler, whom she recognised and was keen to interview for a school project.

"I thought 'what an unreal opportunity to get to interview Harry Butler' ... and I thought 'woo hoo, top marks for this'," she said on air last night.

"Harry Butler agreed to allow me to interview him and at 14 even though I didn't really know who he was, that was a pretty cool opportunity. So I left the restaurant with Harry Butler to do an interview and Rolf Harris followed us.

"As soon as we were in the lift Rolf Harris started to touch me. He was basically getting his fingers and tickling my ribs and pinching my bottom and I was very uncomfortable with that."

Harry Butler had no idea what was going on the day Nina Bekker met Rolf Harris. Source: News Corp Australia

Ms Bekker claimed that as they stepped out of the lift Harris only got more brazen, following her to her room.

"As I was walking along he had his tummy placed against me and he had reached around my shoulders and he has his hands over my breast. And he was saying like a kind of poem which basically referred to my breasts as ripe plums.

"And then he was saying 'oh give Rolfy a cuddle. Rolfy deserves a cuddle, give Rolfy a hug'."

The then-teenager told Richardson that she was eventually able to flee the room and conduct her interview with Butler, who had no idea what was going on.

Richardson asked: "Looking back now, do you believe you were the first?"

Bekker responded: "Absolutely not. His actions were so fluid and quick. He had such a limited time and he just went straight into it and he was absolutely rehearsed ... he's rehearsed and rehearsed and rehearsed."

Bekker, who went on to become a youth worker, claimed she tried to lodge a complaint with police in 1984 which went nowhere, resulting in her going "off the rails".

"Self-hatred, doubts, anger, anger, years and years of anger. I'm still angry ... an angry person," she said, adding that until this week she hadn't even told her daughter of the attack.

"You can't take away what he's done. There's no correcting it. I'm 50. This happened when I was 14. There's no way to fix that. I don't have a second chance at this. I never had a second chance."

Harris will be sentenced at the end of this week.

Rolf Harris faces sentencing at the end of this week. Picture: Metropolitan Police (UK) Source: AFP

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