Rolf Harris has been released from prison after almost three years, according to reports.
The former TV star is believed to have left Stafford prison in the early of hours of Friday, avoiding waiting camera crews.
Harris was serving a sentence of five years and nine months. The Australian-born 87-year-old is on trial at Southwark crown court facing indecent assault charges, where he has been appearing via videolink.
Judge Deborah Taylor told the jury on Thursday that Harris would be released on Friday and appear in court in person, while on bail, for the remainder of the trial.
Jurors had been told Harris was convicted and sentenced for other offences in 2014.
The trial, which opened on 15 May, will not sit on Friday. The former Animal Hospital host is accused of indecently assaulting three teenage girls in the 1970s and 1980s.
He is also alleged to have touched a 13-year-old girl’s breast after filming a children’s TV programme, and to have asked her: “Do you often get molested in a Saturday morning?”
He is separately accused of twice groping a third girl, aged 16, after being paid to appear on an ITV celebrity show, Star Games, in 1978, and telling her she was “a little bit irresistible”, the court heard.
He denies four charges of indecent assault against three girls between 1971 and 1983.
