By Nick Pisa, Sky News Reporter
Rolf Harris indecently assaulted a 13-year-old girl "in eyeshot" of his wife and daughter, his alleged victim has told a court.
The 49-year-old woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was the first witness to give evidence in the entertainer's sex trial and is a childhood friend of his daughter Bindi.
Jurors heard how Harris, 84, began abusing her in 1978 while on an overseas family break - and the indecent assaults carried on back in Britain, at his home and hers.
Speaking from behind a screen, she told how he first targeted her as she came out of a hotel shower, groping her as he wrapped her in a towel.
The woman said he gave her ''one of his big hugs and tickles'' which she said she found ''creepy and cringey", before putting his hand through the towel to assault her.
She added she was ''shocked and horrified'' at what happened but didn't tell anyone "'because it was Bindi's father".
Harris is then said to have assaulted her again as the she emerged from the sea, again groping her under a towel he had wrapped her in, while his daughter and wife Alwen were close by.
At one stage during the five week holiday, she said she woke to the sound of a "clicking camera" as Harris stood over her taking pictures.
Years later, when she was 28, the woman said that Harris referred to her beachwear on the holiday, saying: "I was always turned on by that bikini."
Southwark Crown Court heard how the woman lived close to the Harris family home in the 1960s and she had grown up with Bindi.
In a faltering voice she added how the assaults continued throughout the holiday but she did not say anything because of who Harris was.
The victim described how back in Britain Harris would "tickle my back" and grope her after she spent the night at his home as a guest of his daughter.
She described further attacks in her own bedroom at her home and told the court that by this time she had started drinking gin as she "became panicky" at the thought of him coming to visit.
The woman also described how she did not reveal any of what happened because Bindi "was her friend" and she didn't ''want to cause chaos'' by mentioning it.
She added:''My parents knew him and he was a nice man but he never greeted the family dog.''
The woman also told the court her mother had told her ''never to trust a man with a beard''.
Harris listened from the dock dressed in a dark suit and tie, occasionally glancing over at the jury and prosecutor.
The TV presenter and artist is accused of 12 counts of sexual offences against four young girls, alleged to have taken place between 1968 and 1986. He denies all the charges.
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