Rolf Harris' widow dies at age 93
The wife of disgraced paedophile TV star Rolf Harris has passed away at the age of 93, just one year after the death of her husband.
Alwen Hughes stood by Harris when he was jailed in 2014 for 12 indecent assaults on four underage girls between 1968 and 1986.
Hughes passed away due to a “stroke, frailty of old age, vascular dementia”, according to her death certificate.
Harris died in May 2023 from neck cancer, after the couple were married for 65 years.
According to reports by The Sun, Hughes has been pictured in a wheelchair and was reportedly suffering from Alzheimer’s disease in the years before her death.
Alwen stood by her husband through the court proceedings and his. subsequent jail term, attending every day of Harris’ initial trial alongside their daughter Bindi.
Speaking shortly after Harris’ conviction in 2014, singer Vince Hill said, “Alwen is very poorly. We’re all very worried about her."
“I don’t know if she will survive his prison term. She’s quite fragile. She suffers from arthritis and she’s had hip replacements and God knows what.”
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