Updated May 23, 2017 05:57:31

Photo: Rolf Harris was accompanied by his niece Jenny Harris when he arrived at court. (ABC News: Emily Bryan)

A woman who alleges she was touched on the breast by Rolf Harris at the age of 13 has rejected suggestions from the entertainer's lawyer that she fabricated her story for financial gain.

Harris, 87, is on trial at London's Southwark Crown Court, where he has appeared in person for the first time since his release from Stafford Prison last Friday.

Harris did not speak to reporters outside but gave a wave towards the cameras as he walked into court with his niece Jenny Harris.

The Australian musician has pleaded not guilty to four counts of indecent assault that allegedly occurred between 1971 and 1983 on girls who were aged between 13 and 16 at the time.

A woman who met Harris at the live broadcast of a children's TV program in 1983 when she was a 13-year-old schoolgirl was cross-examined about her allegation that he put his arm around her and touched her breast before saying, "Do you often get molested on a Saturday morning?"

Harris' lawyer Stephen Vullo QC did not dispute that his client made a comment about "being molested on a Saturday morning", but suggested it might have been said as a joke to the group of children he was with that day.

"Absolutely not. I fail to see how asking children 13 and under if they like to be molested could be some kind of joke," the woman responded.

Mr Vullo asked the complainant why she did not report the alleged assault to police until four days after Harris was convicted in a previous trial in 2014, and the day a newspaper ran a report about compensation for his victims.

The woman said she had no interest in accessing part of Harris's alleged 11 million-pound ($19.1 million) fortune.

"It's never been about compensation, it's about vindication and justice," she said.

"I don't understand why someone would want to profit from something like this."

She described the months that followed her report to police and the questioning of her family and friends by Harris' private investigators as "horrendous".

The complainant's sister was challenged on whether her sibling complained about being assaulted at the time.

"She said [Harris] had made her feel really funny and weird and she didn't like the way he'd made her feel, and she's reiterated that ever since," the sister told the court.

"She called him a perv."

Under cross-examination she admitted she was unsure whether the alleged touching of her sister's breasts was ever mentioned in the 31 years before it was reported to police.

"She's spoken about it in a lot more detail since going to the police, I think because we didn't take it as seriously as we should have at the time."

The trial continues.

Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, child-abuse, arts-and-entertainment, united-kingdom, australia

First posted May 23, 2017 05:51:11