Chilling footage of pedophile Rolf Harris encouraging children to say “no” to would-be predators during the period of his own crime has resurfaced today following his death at age 93.
The disgraced former TV presenter – believed to have died of neck cancer – launched his ‘Kids Can Say No’ campaign at the height of his career in 1985, at a time when he was still abusing his own victims.
The 20-minute video – an idea of Harris – was widely shown in schools and saw the Australian-born presenter talking about ‘touching’ and the difference between ‘yes’ and ‘no feelings’.
Harris was convicted in June 2014 of a series of sexual assaults, including one on an eight-year-old signature hunter, two on girls in their early teens, and a catalog of abuse against his daughter’s girlfriend over 16 years, starting when she was just a teenager. 13.
In a sick portrayal of his own crimes, his 1985 educational video features a young girl role-playing inappropriately touched by her boyfriend’s father as he warns that “even people you trust” can be abusers.
Chilling footage of pedophile Rolf Harris encouraging children to say ‘no’ to would-be predators during the period of his own crime has resurfaced today following his death at age 93
He says to a group of primary school children: ‘You can also get a ‘no’ feeling from people you already know.
“It’s kind of hard to say no to these people because you feel like you always have to be nice to them. Or at least you think you should do what they ask of you.’
He encourages children to speak out against any attacker, even if they fear no one will believe them.
In a brutal twist, his own victims told a court nearly 30 years later that they never speak up because they fear they wouldn’t be believed.
He was jailed for five years and nine months after being convicted of 12 sexual assaults between 1968 and 1986.
“Some people don’t get along well with kids and need help,” Harris says in the video that has resurfaced.
“You can’t protect them from problems they’ve caused themselves, and it’s better to speak up so you and the family can get the help you need. You know nothing gets better by keeping quiet about it.’
Harris even wrote a song for the kids to remember his advice.
Harris encourages children to speak out against any attacker, even if they fear no one will believe them
After contracting neck cancer, Rolf Harris (pictured during the pandemic) could no longer speak or eat and needs 24-hour care
Disgraced pedophile Rolf Harris has died at the age of 93, MailOnline can reveal. He was last photographed in April 2022 (right)
The video ends with him and the kids marching across a room singing, “My body isn’t anyone’s body but mine.” You have your own body, let me have mine.’
Two police officers stand behind Harris as they sing along, oblivious to his litany of crimes against children and women.
Harris had taken the advice of the NSPCC when making the video, which was considered a groundbreaking film at the time.
Harris had been ‘very ill’ with neck cancer since leaving prison six years ago, living as a near recluse with his wife in their £5 million riverside mansion in Bray, Berkshire.
On May 11, a private ambulance was photographed outside his riverside home. Two sources close to the family told MailOnline he died up to two weeks ago, but his death was only registered with Windsor and Maidenhead Council today.
In a statement issued by his attorney this afternoon, his attorney said: “Rolf Harris recently passed away peacefully surrounded by family and friends and is now buried. They ask you to respect their privacy. No further comment will be made.’
The cause of death is not yet known, but pedophile Harris struggled to speak after cancerous tumors grew on his neck following his release from prison in 2017. He was tube-fed before his death.
He is survived by his grandson Marlon, 25, daughter Bindi, 59, and wife Alwen, 91, a jeweler and sculptor. She is confined to a wheelchair due to Alzheimer’s disease, but the couple, who married in 1958, lived together with the help of round-the-clock care.