Victim demands inquiry as 'there's more to come out'

EXPOSE ANY COMPLICITY, SAYS VICTIM OF ALAN HARRIS

- By CARL EVE

Alan Harris arriving at Winchester Crown Court ahead of his sentencing

(ANDREW MATTHEWS)

ONE of the men targeted by former solicitor and sexual predator Alan Harris is demanding a full-scale inquiry to ensure it can never happen again.

Male E, as he was referred to by The Herald during the trial, had mixed emotions when the jury returned their verdicts on Harris, who was convicted of 10 offences against seven victims.

Harris committed the offences between 1988 and 2015 with the majority happening during private legal consultations at Plymouth Magistrates' Court and Charles Cross police station as well as in a car and at a residential address in Plymouth. Harris was jailed at Winchester Crown Court for 13 years.

The jury unanimous agreed with Male E that between April 30, 2004 and March 21, 2014, on multiple occasions, Harris sexually assaulted him in police station and court cells.

However, they found Harris not guilty of a further count of sexual assault on more than one occasion upon Male E, also at a time when Harris was representing him as a defence solicitor.

Speaking exclusively to The Herald, the man - whose real identity is protected under the Sexual Offences Act - said: "It's cost me my home, my business I'd built from scratch working day and night to build and support my family, it destroyed the voluntary work I'd done."

He is adamant Harris's behaviour was well known among police and "higher ranking people" which he is determined must be "exposed" through an inquiry.

"There's more to come out. He was given access to boys. From what was known back then, he should never been given a right to be involved in police station work.