I feel sorry for his daughter - knowing that her father has been found guilty of assaulting her best friend over a period of 6 years.

There was never any doubt that some sort of relationship between Harris and this girl took place and the letter he wrote to the girls father also indicated accusations that she had been assaulted were made at the time. 

If the girl hadn't complained at the time then Harris would hardly have written a letter to her father containing the following, ""I fondly imagined that everything that had taken place had progressed from a feeling of love and friendship - there was no **bleep**, no physical forcing, brutality or beating that took place."

Seven of the charges he faced were based on alleged offences against this girl - I suspect the jury felt from the beginning that these had been proved and the delay in the verdict were the charges related to the other three girls - remember they asked the judge a series of questions basically asking if behaviour in one of the charges could be used as an indicator of behaviour in the other charges.