Dave Lee Travis A 'Perfect Gentleman'

Dave Lee Travis is not the "sleazy, predatory opportunist" his trial has accused him of being, according to his defence barrister.

Instead, Stephen Vullo QC told jurors, the ex-Top Of The Pops frontman is "the perfect gentleman", something he said was proved by the testimony of character witnesses in the case.

Mr Vullo said in his closing speech: "Somebody with a propensity throughout his whole life to act in a sleazy, predatory way would struggle, wouldn't they, to bring the type of character evidence that he has called before you."

He reminded them that all three of the former Radio 1 DJ's personal assistants, who worked for him at different times during a 20-year period, had wanted to give evidence in his support.

"They described him as warm, friendly, tactile," Mr Vullo said.

But none of the three women, who worked from him between the 1970s and early 2000s, said they had ever felt he acted inappropriately towards them or anyone else, he added.

He reminded the jury, sitting at Southwark Crown Court, of the evidence from Dee Dee White, who regularly appeared with Travis on Top Of The Tops. This was during the "height of his popularity", Mr Vullo said, when the BBC show drew in millions of viewers.

Dave Lee Travis with his wife Marianne outside court

"It's very difficult to be as much of a celebrity as he was at that time," he added.

Mr Vullo said that Ms Wilde, who appeared on the music show as part of the all-girl dance troupe Pan's People, said she always found Travis to be the "perfect gentleman" who never did anything to alarm her or her fellow dancers.

The troupe clearly had a good "radar" for sleazy men, Mr Vullo said, because they had found Jimmy Savile to be a nasty sexual predator.

Mr Vullo also told jurors Travis had sold his house to hire investigators to help in his defence case and was now living on "dwindling resources".

The defendant, who is being tried under his real name David Griffin, faces a retrial on two counts - one of indecent assault of a woman between November 1 1990 and January 31 1991, and another of sexual assault on a different woman between June 1 2008 and November 30 2008 - on which a jury was unable to reach verdicts at a trial earlier this year.

Travis, of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, has also pleaded not guilty to an additional count of indecent assault alleged to have taken place on January 17 1995.

The charges relate to three women, and the court has heard allegations relating to two more women.

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