Joe, you raise a fair question about the passage of time.

I think the answer is that since criminal offences have been alleged, it is in the interests of justice for the accusers and Rolf alike that they are considered in a court. The allegation that Rolf has made indecent images of minors is a different matter, probably resulting from police enquiries rather than witness statements, That one might not have been pursued had it related to 1980, but it relates to 2012.

The fact that Jimmy Savile, who we can now be sure was everything that Lizzie says he was, died without ever facing justice has caused colossal and understandable frustration and has paved the way for DMcG to engage in a tedious, tendencious and pedantic exercise based, I suspect, more on animosity to Lizzie than on any serious commitment to the idea that Savile's and Harris's are comparable cases.