Shamed Rolf Harris has didgeridoos taken off him at Stafford Prison

The former children's entertainer, aged 85, has been told he can no longer keep the working copies of the Aboriginal wind instrument in his cell.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice, which previously denied that Harris had made a didgeridoo, declined to say why they were confiscated.

But according to reports, Harris had the instruments confiscated because prisoners at Stafford Prison are not allowed to keep large personal items.

Some instruments can be given an exception but it is believed that the didgeridoo is not on that list.

Harris is said to have made one of the didgeridoos during an art class at his former prison, HMP Bullingdon in Oxfordshire.

It is believed that this didgeridoo was made out of jail garden wood where he used to work as a gardener in the farm and gardens unit at HMP Bullingdon for £9.60 a week before he was moved to Stafford Prison in October last year.

It reportedly took Harris a month for him to create the first didgeridoo, which is about 3ft long and has been decorated on the outside with figures and images.

The confiscated didgeridoos are not the only problems Harris has encountered in prison.

In July last year it emerged that he had been spat on by a fellow inmate at HMP Bullingdon.

While earlier this year it emerged that Harris had penned a song in jail in which he described his victims as 'money-grabbing'.

Harris was convicted of 12 indecent assaults on June 30 at Southwark Crown Court by Mr Justice Sweeney – one on an eight-year-old autograph hunter, two on girls in their early teens and a catalogue of abuse of his daughter's friend over 16 years.

He was jailed for five years and nine months for the sex abuse, meaning that he is due to serve just under three years for the crimes, which spanned between 1968 and 1986.