By Nick Pisa, Sky News Reporter
A woman who claims she was indecently assaulted by entertainer Rolf Harris in a pub has told a court she got her "timeline wrong".
Tonya Lee, 43, had said the veteran entertainer molested her twice just hours after she arrived in Britain on a youth theatre tour from Australia.
She claimed the incident happened in a London pub in 1986 on her first day in the country when she was 15, but defence barrister Sonia Woodley QC produced an itinerary that suggested she was wrong.
Ms Woodley read out to Southwark Crown Court details of the tour which started in London and went on to Birmingham, Liverpool and Scotland.
She added that at the end of the tour there was a "celebration" dinner with Harris in a Greenwich pub just before the party returned to Australia.
Ms Woodley said the itinerary proved Ms Lee was wrong in saying she had been assaulted by him in the pub at the start of her six-week visit.
The alleged victim, a mother of three, responded: "I know the incident happened. This happened almost 28 years ago. There is fault about my timeline but what happened, happened.
"My dates are wrong but I know what happened."
She added the incidents remained "clear" in her mind.
A photo of Tonya Lee released by the Metropolitan Police Ms Woodley asked her how she could have said in her evidence the tour was "tainted" by what she claimed took place and that she "threw up for the rest of the trip".
After a long pause Ms Lee, 43, said: "I don't know, maybe I was nervous about being away from home."
Ms Woodley suggested that she was ill and lost weight because she "didn't like English food".
The witness also admitted that at the time she sold her story to the Australian media for $60,000 (£33,000), she owed $10,000 (£5,500) to the tax authorities.
But she insisted "money was not the motivating factor", adding she just wanted to tell police what she claimed happened to her with Harris.
She denied prosecution suggestions that she "spiced up" her story in order to secure a more lucrative deal with Australian media.
Finally, Ms Lee was asked why she had given evidence and said she was "forever grateful for the opportunity" to speak.
In tears, she added: "It takes people like myself to speak out, to help others that have suffered, to give strength to others.
"What I do know is that nobody has a right, no matter who they are, to subject something to somebody that is unlawful, wrong. There is an age of consent for a reason."
Harris, 84, is accused of three indecent assault charges against Ms Lee and nine other allegations, all of which he denies.
As she gave evidence Harris, who lives in Bray, Berkshire, listened and occasionally passed notes to his defence team.
Harris has had a 50-year career in entertainment and was again supported in the public gallery by his wife Alwen and other family and friends.
The trial continues.
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