Pedophile Harris ordered to leave a primary school

Officials are investi­gating a report that child-sex ­offender Rolf Harris walked into a primary school and waved at pupils.

Rolf Harris arrives at the Royal Court of Justice in London with his solicitor Daniel Burke during his trial. Picture: Ella Pellegrini

Officials are investi­gating a report that child-sex ­offender Rolf Harris walked on to the grounds of a primary school and waved at pupils.

The disgraced entertainer wandered into Oldfield Primary School near his home in Bray, Maidenhead, to talk to a sculptor working in the grounds, a British newspaper reported.

Harris, 88, who was jailed for five years and nine months in 2014 but released on licence in May 2017, was told to leave by the school’s head teacher.

A Justice Ministry spokeswoman told the Daily Mirror: “When sex offenders are released, they are subject to strict licence conditions and are liable to be returned to custody for breaching them. We are looking into these reports and will take appropriate action.”

Thames Valley Police said an officer attended the scene and established that no offence had been committed. Head teacher Richard Jarrett told the paper that the school had “two forms of security” and Harris had no ­access to the pupils “whatsoever”.

“We’ve got a wood sculptor working close to the road at the moment and Rolf Harris lives about three doors down from the school,” he said. “He must have seen him (the sculptor) and come into the school area. He had no access to the children whatsoever.

“I went over and shook his hand and introduced myself. He explained what he was doing — that he was getting some wood from the sculptor. I said: ‘You need to go.’ ”

Police were called to the school at 3.15pm on Tuesday (2.15am yesterday, AEDT).

Harris declined to answer journalists’ questions about what he was doing at the school when he left his gated home near the Thames yesterday.

He was convicted in June 2014 of 12 indecent assaults — one of which was overturned — including one on an autograph hunter aged 8, two on girls in their early teens, and a catalogue of abuse against his daughter’s friend.

PA