The . Uber's future prospects were now "pretty bright", Mr Primack added. SEXUAL ASSAULT ON A NATIONAL NEWSPAPER REPORTER - JURY FAILED TO REACH A VERDICT, NOT GUILTY VERDICT RECORDED. [41] In the 1970s, Travis was a regular drag racer. [4] He pleaded not guilty and the trial began in January 2014 at Southwark Crown Court. Following his resignation from the BBC in 1993, he worked for several British commercial radio stations . 'I think you, the listeners, ought to know first. Or by navigating to . [citation needed]. A Southwark Crown Court jury convicted him by a majority . Sophie Wood, defending, told the judge she would "seek to persuade" him that Travis should be given a non-custodial community order sentence. Dave Lee Travis is a former Radio 1 DJ and Top of the Pops presenter. Mr Kalanick will remain on the board of the ride-hailing firm. ( m. 1971) . Following the verdict, Travis told reporters "I do not feel like there is a victory in any way, shape or form. Not guilty on the first count. [25] We are no longer accepting comments on this article. [21] He was also the presenter of The Golden Oldie Picture Show in the mid-1980s, an attempt by the BBC to create videos for classic pop songs that pre-dated the video age. Like Dave Lee Travis, 47, Mr Beerling was a founder of Radio 1 in 1967. Noel Tyrrel. Jenny Hopkins, deputy chief crown prosecutor for the CPS in London, said in a statement: "David Griffin, also known as Dave Lee Travis, indecently assaulted a young woman by touching her in a way that was not only deeply invasive but also against the law. But the woman's account of having raised the assault incident at the time was backed up by comedian Dave Gorman, a scriptwriter on the show, and the producer Peter Kessler, who told the jury they remembered her claims clearly. 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Please try again later{{ /verifyErrors }}, NHS nurses hold placards during a strike, amid a dispute with the government over pay, outside St Thomas' Hospital in London, Members of the RNLI remove a stretcher and body bag from the Dover lifeboat after it returned to the Port of Dover following a large search and rescue operation launched in the Channel off the coast of Dungeness, in Kent, during an incident involving a small boat likely to have been carrying migrants. We were sharing the bill and we would have been told of anything that was going on.'. August 8, 1993 - Dave Lee Travis, BBC Radio 1 DJ resigned on-air, citing "There are changes being made at the station that go against my principles" in reference to Matthew Bannister 's plans for the station. Travis returned to Manchester to present the daily radio show Pop North on Radio 1 in 1968,[14] and hosted Saturday afternoon programmes in the 4 to 5:30pm slot. The disc jockey also became known for his wacky sound effects - including his trademark "quack quack oops" - and games such as snooker on the radio. [37], Travis lives in Buckland, Buckinghamshire. She had told the court she was left "shaking" after the incident. She was working on the spoof chat show when the 'Hairy Cornflake' cornered her in the corridor in the mid-1990s. Ms Suu Kyi said the show had made her "world much more complete" and she met Travis in London in 2012. PDS revised (2017) - Read online for free. fN I ^ copyright deposit. Last appearance: 30-7-2006. Scottish rugby international Doddie Weir died on Saturday at the age of 52 after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) in December 2016, A bike tour rides along Regent Street in London, A person films himself doing kick-ups with a football during sunrise on Primrose Hill in London, Teachers on the picket line outside Oxgangs Primary School in Edinburgh in a protest over pay. 'The unfortunate thing is that nowadays someone only has to say something and that's enough to stop a person's career.'. The charge on which Travis was convicted, which did not feature in the first trial, involved an assault in January 1995 against a woman, then aged 22, who was working on the BBCs Mrs Merton Show. The former BBC Radio 1 DJ insists on his innocence and describes the conviction as mortifying and really disappointing. Last week he said he was taking an indefinite leave of absence following the sudden death of his mother in a boating accident. Bluefield Daily Telegraph (Newspaper) - December 18, 1996, Bluefield, West Virginia D-2 wednesday december 18, 1996 guru Feu Kiln dlr Orab scoreboard v football class a list the class a All state football team named tuesday by the West Virginia sports writers association first team offence wide receiver Eric Butler 6-4, 175, or Gilmer county Travis Ellis. By Almost two years since his arrest, eight months since the first trial and four days since this jury began their deliberations. Dave Lee Travis is a British radio broadcaster who was a colleague of John Peel at Radio One from 1968 to 1993, and at BBC World Service from 1978 to 1999. But I haven't been saying to myself, 'Oh my God, I must get back on air or I'll die'. Judge Anthony Leonard has given Dave Lee Travis a three month sentence suspended for two years after being found guilty of one indecent assault . Sense of injustice lingers after Seoul Halloween crush, Chess gets a risqu makeover. He told her to move from the public gallery, saying: You are making me uncomfortable. He has been married to his Swedish-born wife Marianne for more than 40 years. He denies 13 charges of . [9], Travis's first jobs were as a graphic designer, a designer of shop interiors and a photographer. For the first time it's become the latter - and Mr Kalanick is out the door. LONDON (Reuters) - Dave Lee Travis, one of Britain's best-known radio DJs in the 1970s and 1980s who counted Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi among his fans, was found guilty on Tuesday of indecently . dave lee travis receives 3 month suspended sentence; england: london: southwark crown court: ext **flashlight photography** dave lee travis from. His wife Marianne, who'd been sitting grim-faced in the public gallery behind him, put an arm round his waist. 212 Revised 2017. In 2014, he was convicted of groping a researcher on the Mrs Merton Show, at Southwark Crown Court in London, but was cleared of a string of other offences. He moved to BBC Radio 1 where he became one of the station . 55 years ago this month, in the famous Summer of Love, tears flowed as beloved pirate radio stations said their farewells before being made illegal under the new law. Dave Lee Travis is a famous Radio Host, who was born on May 25, 1945 in United Kingdom.An English radio show host who is known under the nicknames The Hairy Monster and DLT. 2001 Australian Capital Territory general election, 2020 Democratic Party presidential primary, "How do you have an honourable resignation? Before the sentencing Travis turned around and banged on the window of the dock to attract the attention of the Sunday Times journalist Camilla Long, who this week claimed that he had also groped her. Dave Goldiner / New York Daily News: Rep. George Santos insists he'll only resign if '142,000 people who voted for me' want him to step down. David Patrick Griffin (born 25 May 1945), known professionally as Dave Lee Travis, is an English disc jockey, radio presenter and television presenter.. Travis began his broadcasting career on the pirate radio station Radio Caroline in 1965. Leonard told Travis: When you gave evidence you described what she was alleging took place was a nasty thing to do. Who was Ukrainian minister Denys Monastyrsky? 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