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Lee Travis pleads not guilty to indecent assault charges

Former DJ is accused of 14 counts of indecent assault between 1976 and 2003

Former disc jockey Dave Lee Travis arrives at Southwark Crown Court in London, England. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Tue Oct 22 2013 - 11:38

Former Radio One DJ Dave Lee Travis has denied a string of indecent assault charges and one of sexual assault.

The 68-year-old, whose real name is David Patrick Griffin, entered not guilty pleas at London's Southwark Crown Court to a total of 15 charges.

He is accused of 14 counts of indecent assault between 1976 and 2003, and one count of sexual assault in 2008.

Wearing a green jacket over a white shirt, he replied “not guilty” to each of the charges as they were put to him by the clerk.

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Travis, of Mentmore in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, familiar to listeners as DLT, has consistently denied any wrongdoing since he was first arrested on suspicion of sexual offences last November. He was first charged on August 15th as part of Operation Yewtree, the police investigation prompted by the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal, but the accusations against

Travis have no connection to the disgraced television presenter. He was charged with additional counts on October 1st.

Travis is currently on bail on condition that he lives at his Bedfordshire home and does not contact the alleged victims.

The counts that he denied today are:

- One count of indecent assault on a woman between January 1st, 1976 and December 31st, 1977;

- Two counts of indecent assault on a 15-year-old girl, both on June 17th, 1978;

- One count of indecent assault on a woman on June 29th, 1978;

- One count of indecent assault on a woman between January 1st, 1981 and December 31st, 1983;

-One count of indecent assault on a woman between January 1st, 1983 and March 2nd, 1984;

- One count of indecent assault on a woman between January 1st, 1983 and December 31st, 1984;

- One count of indecent assault on a woman between November 1st, 1990 and January 31st, 1991;

- Two counts of indecent assault on a woman between November 1st, 1992 and January 1st, 1993;

- Three counts of indecent assault on a woman between January 1st, 2000 and December 31st, 2003;

- One count of indecent assault on a woman between January 1st, 2000 and December 31st, 2003;

- One count of sexual assault on a woman between June 1st, 2008 and November 30th, 2008.

Travis is due to stand trial on January 14th, and the hearing is expected to take five to six weeks.

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