Rolf Harris’s widow dies year after disgraced entertainer
Alwen Hughes, the widow of Rolf Harris, has died at the age of 92 at her home in Berkshire just over a year after the disgraced entertainer’s death.
The Welsh sculptress and jeweller married Harris in 1958 and remained with him after he was convicted of indecent assault on young girls in 2014.
Harris died on May 10 last year, aged 93, of neck cancer and “frailty of old age”, according to his death certificate.
Fifteen months later, on Aug 15, Hughes died from a stroke after suffering with frailty of old age and vascular dementia, according to a death certificate obtained by the Daily Mirror.
The Windsor and Maidenhead Register Office confirmed her death had been registered with it.
Harris was 84 when a jury at Southwark Crown Court unanimously found him guilty of 12 counts of indecent assault involving victims as young as seven or eight, in July 2014.
He was sentenced to five years and nine months in prison. In May 2017, he was released on licence. In the same month he was formally cleared of four unconnected historical sex offences, which he had denied.
Later that year, one of the 12 indecent assault convictions was overturned by the Court of Appeal.
Harris was one of the most popular and talented entertainers of his generation until he was exposed as a paedophile and serial sexual predator.