Convicted paedophile earning £1,300 PER DAY from Stafford Prison cell.
Rolf Harris is earning up to £1,300 every day from his cell at Stafford Prison, it has been claimed.
His earnings have reportedly shot up by £290,000, it has been suggested, with his companies earning £8.5 million.
It comes after he was sentenced for five years and nine months for sex attacks on children.
His fellow inmates at the Category C Stafford Prison make around £7 a day performing chores, but 84-year-old Harris is said to be earning up to £1,300.
Harris invested much of his multi-million pound earnings from his long-running career as a TV star, musician and artist.
A source close to his finances said: "He is a convicted paedophile and yet he is making a large sum of money.
"All he has to do is sit in his cell and his fortune grows."
He owns a home on the River Thames and his total assets could be worth more than £15m.
Harris also earns interest on £2.3m in cash and the stock-market value of £6.2m of shares owned by his firms continues to rise.
A prison source said of his earnings: "It won’t go down too well that they are having to work to earn a few pounds when he is getting richer by doing nothing."
Last month, it was reported the shamed star is said to have been lampooning prisoners at HMP Stafford in trademark cartoons in a bid to try to build himself a new reputation.
Harris had been serving time in HMP Bullingdon in Oxfordshire but he was spat at in the prison chapel, sparked mass brawls and was accused by lags of hogging phones.
The paedophile was moved to Stafford, a low-security prison which can accommodate 750 prisoners, in October last year for his own safety.
Earlier this month, Harris was reportedly interviewed by police under caution in Stafford by detectives investigating historic sex offences sparked by the Jimmy Savile scandal.
He was jailed after a trial brought under Operation Yewtree, the police probe set up in the wake of disclosures that former BBC DJ Jimmy Savile was a prolific paedophile.
So far more than a dozen people have been arrested as part of the investigation.
Former glam rock singer Gary Glitter was recently found guilty of carrying out a string of sex attacks on young girls while at the height of his fame.
And most recently TV weatherman Fred Talbot was convicted of a string of offences after jurors heard how he coerced young boys into simulating naked orgies on school trips in the 1970s and 80s.
Former PR guru Max Clifford and former BBC radio presenter Chris Denning have also been jailed following trials brought under Operation Yewtree.
Former BBC Radio One host Dave Lee Travis was given a suspended sentence after being convicted for indecent assault.
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