Dave Lee Travis trial: Jurors can give majority verdict, judge rules

 
Dave Lee Travis arrives at Southwark Crown Court earlier this month
Standard Reporter23 September 2014

Jurors in the trial of former Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis, who is accused of indecently assaulting two women and sexually assaulting a third, have been told they can return a majority verdict.

Prosecutors claim the ex-Top Of The Pops presenter was an "opportunist" who acted as if he had the "perfect right" to grope young women.

The allegations against him date back to the 1990s when he was starring in panto, while the most recent was said to have happened during an interview with a journalist at his home in 2008.

On their third day of deliberations, the jury of six men and six women were told by judge Anthony Leonard QC that they can return a majority verdict, on which at least 10 of them agree.

"Try and reach a verdict on which you all agree." he said.

"If you are not able to do so, I can accept a verdict on which 10 of you agree."

Travis, 69, who is on trial under his real name, David Griffin, is facing 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 - after a jury was unable to reach verdicts on them at a trial earlier this year.

He has also pleaded not guilty to an additional count of indecent assault alleged to have taken place on January 17 1995 on a female television personality working on the Mrs Merton Show.

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