The jury in the trial of British TV personality and artist Rolf Harris has retired to consider its verdict on 12 counts of indecent assault.

He is accused of indecently assaulting four women between 1968 and 1986, all of which he denies.

During his trial at Southwark Crown Court in London, prosecutors claimed the entertainer was a "Jekyll and Hyde" character.

They said he had a dark side to his personality and used his fame to abuse under-age girls with impunity.

But his defence team told the jury that Harris's reputation had been unfairly "trashed" and that the prosecution case did not reach the standard of criminal proof.

In his summing up, Mr. Justice Sweeney warned the jury of six men and six women against being swayed by emotion.

He said "Neither media nor internet nor speculation nor emotion of any type can have any part whatsoever to play in your deliberations".

The first alleged victim claims Harris (84) groped her when she was seven or eight after she went to get his autograph at a community centre near Portsmouth between 1968 and 1970.

The second alleged victim claims that Harris touched her bottom when she was waitressing at a celebrity event in Cambridge, either in 1975 or 1978.

The third is a friend of Harris's daughter Bindi who alleges that Harris abused her from the age of 13 for several years, starting while she was on holiday in Hawaii.

The fourth alleged victim, Tonya Lee, who has waived her right to anonymity, said she was abused while on a UK tour with an Australian youth theatre group in 1986.

The aspiring theatre star, then 15, said Harris groped her when he went for dinner with the group at a London pub. Harris admits an adult consensual affair with Bindi's friend, but denies abusing her or any of the other women.