Disgraced former entertainer Rolf Harris has died at the age of 93. 

For decades he was a beloved personality in Britain and his native Australia, charming viewers of all ages with his TV programmes about art and animals. 

He was also a gifted painter and completed an official portrait of the late Queen Elizabeth II to mark her 80th birthday. 

Rolf Harris

The public adulation melted away in 2014 when he was convicted of a string of indecent assaults on girls between the 1960s and 1980s. 

He was labelled a “sinister pervert” in court and the judge said he had “shown no remorse for [his] crimes at all”. 

Harris spent three years behind bars and after his release returned to live in the village of Bray in Berkshire near London. 

It was reported he was suffering from neck cancer in recent months but the cause of his death has not yet been confirmed.

Main image: Rolf Harris leaves Southwark Crown Court in London. Picture by: Alamy.com